I want to clean up log entries that appear logcat as well as other tools that report calls to Log.x(), such as Crashlytics.
There are quite a few entries appearing that I did not explicitly create, that have my application's unique identifier (e.g. com.example.myapp). Some examples are tags like: Adreno-EGL, MediaPlayer, jdwp, dalvikcm, Zygote, Crashlytics, OpenGLRenderer.
Can I intercept and filter these? Or disable invocations outside of my code altogether?
add a filter on the top field of your logcat like app:. you can also filter by tag (tag: or even by anything you want to find within the messages (just type a phrase you want o filter by). There are also pid: that corresponds to process id (its helpful when youre filtering app which is already released / not in debug mode as there is no application tag visible).PS You just can't disable the logs permanently
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I am currently using ACRA for capturing errors and improving my application. I would like to filter in Logcat all logs generated due to my application running which includes not only those that my app generates, but also those that are generated by libraries used by app (like GooglePlay).
Usually what I have seen suggested is filtering by TAG, but that will not allow me to see logs that I have not tagged (like, for instance, ACRA... )
There is a solution in eclipse where I can filter both using TAGs but also by Application name and/or its process ID. That's what I would like to do, filter by my application name the logcat output sent to ACRA.
I would like to use a command in logcat to reproduce the following option I select in eclipse:
Finally the question is at logcat level. Is possible to filter logcat at adb level using a filter by application and not by TAG
Is the only option to have a single TAG for all the application Logs? Another way around I have is to filter "all TAG starting by xxxx", but I have not found any example in google, not using "*".
Any solution using Linux shell (like grep) is not workable, I already tested it as the way the information is passed by ACRA.
Trebia,
The tricky part of your request is "adb logcat" spits out PID. The only way I know of to filter by application name is to write a script to query the OS via "ps" to look up the PID. I am not aware of any way to do that within eclipse with out editing the logcat plugin yourself.
If you are using a Mac and you are willing to do the filter outside of eclipse you should try LogRabbit. It can filter by application name or just about any thing else you would need to filter by. In addition to a rich filter creator your saved filters are just one click away for real-time filtering.
You can find more information here: http://lograbbit.com/
Full disclosure I am the creator of LogRabbit.
When testing on a device in Android Studio you get an awful lot of output in the logcat.
I'm only interested in the output for the app I'm developing. I can see just this, after running, by opening the Devices section and manually selecting my apps process. Problem is, it's pretty tedious to do this every time I run my app, which seems to be the case.
Is there a way to get it to remember this setup?
How about a way to get it to stop reporting anything after I'm done with my app or it's crashed ? (otherwise my app specific stuff gets buried so quickly by output from other proccesses on my phone)
I'm open to other ways of filtering the logcat too, however I couldn't think of a way to set up filters so that I would get my tagged Log messages AND other exceptions I wasn't expecting.
Any suggestions?
Normally this is done by default, but if not,
in logcat, the green plus sign, when you click it you get a dialog, fill the byApplicationName with your package name, and also your filter name with something, now you can filter your output according to your app
with that beeing said, sometimes you don't get the filter column info (application name) in logcat at all (blank), here (and I my self don't know the cause of it) just forget it for a while and retry again
I know this question has been asked a lot, but none of the solutions proposed worked for me
Since I started my project, my LogCat has been displaying just enough information about my app. But somehow (I don't remember changing any settings), it is now displaying too many information. And It makes it impossible to detect my Log messages.
The problem is I don't use My appName as TAG for most of these Logs. I used my methods names to detect my messages. Wish makes the following solution not appropriate in my case : adb logcat -s "MyAppName"
I tried the filters proposed by eclipse, but none of them makes it look like it used to be !
Do you guys happen to know any other solution ??
this is quite easy : in the logcat view click the side menu button : it makes filters appear on the left.
you can add filters by cliking the '+' sign and add yout application package identifier as filter.
set the name you want for your filter :
you can also filter by log levels, tags etc...
I am using HTC One X.
There are some system application that has too many logs.
Because of that, I am able to see my application log only for some seconds. After some time, my logs are being remove from buffer since too many new logs from other application.
Can i disable log by using the tag.
Firstly, you cannot stop other applications from logging! Probably some apps more than others log too extensively causing an overflow. What you could try to do is
Force stop some apps so that thier logging activity is reduced(less chance it might reduce).
Secondly, as Rasel suggets,
Use DDMS features like filtering logs using application name, package name, TAG's etc. and pause logging.
In this way you will get a snapshot of your logs. Hope this helps!
I have developed an Android application that performs some network activity. Inside the classes I have implemented the log messages like verbose, debug, info, warn and error. But when I open logcat with argument -d its listing the entire log messages from the device. So its difficult to trace the log messages of my application. Is there any way to filter the log messages of my application from the entire logcat output?
Every Android log message has a tag and a priority associated with it:
The tag of a log message is a short string indicating the system
component from which the message originates (for example, "View"
for the view system).
The priority is one of the following character values, ordered
from lowest to highest priority:
V — Verbose (lowest priority)
D — Debug
I — Info
W — Warning
E — Error
F — Fatal
S — Silent (highest priority, on which nothing is ever printed)
Here's how to do it:
adb logcat ActivityManager:I MyApp:D *:S
This will make logs with the tag ActivityManager show up if they have an "Info" level priority or above (Warning, Error, Fatal). The same applies to messages with the tag MyApp and a priority of Debug or above. *:S makes all other messages be silent.
Check this out in the documentation: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#logcat
Further tips
I suggest you to keep all other logs to Error or Warning level (*:W). Sometimes you get a problem in your application due some system event or third party application and you do want to be notified of these events!
You might want to change the output format of logcat. Play around with these settings (information in the same link above)
You might want to check out Coloured output for logcat. I've done some modifications to this script to suit better my needs so maybe you could adjust it too. (I tried to send my modifications to the author but he didn't reply).
Logcat has a small + button that lets you create a filter. Use the TAG you used in your app and specify it in the filter. That creates a new tab that shows only your apps messages.
While you're at it, I recommend creating a filter for the AndroidRuntime tag. All your exceptions get dumped in there and you can find them very easy.
Of course you can filter these messages more by category (verbose, warn, error, ..) by using the buttons in the same bar.