Lifeboat "View Logs"

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@Tim_Parnell , which log(s) are displayed by the “View Logs” button? Is it stderr, to which System.DebugLog messages are written? Thanks.

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Hi Julia, thanks for asking!

Lifeboat configures rsyslog to collect the stdout and stderr streams to instance-specific log files. I ran a quick test to confirm these details and to see the different ways to send messages to the log file.

// These functions include EndOfLine
Print("Print")
System.DebugLog("System.DebugLog")

// These do not, they are streams
stdout.Write("stdout.Write" + EndOfLine)
stderr.Write("stderr.Write" + EndOfLine)

Produced:

raspberrypi testoutputs42003[11887]: Print
raspberrypi testoutputs42003[11887]: System.DebugLog
raspberrypi testoutputs42003[11887]: stdout.Write
raspberrypi testoutputs42003[11887]: stderr.Write
raspberrypi testoutputs42003[11887]: Application is ready

Personally, I prefer the Print("Message") method and I use it all the time.

Update: I have now added a page to the user guide about this :smiley: I consider it one of Lifeboat’s strengths.

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Thanks, Tim!

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Hi again @Tim_Parnell

Is there a URL or API call I can use to download the log from another app or browser?

Thanks.

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Never mind, figured it out myself.