Difference between revisions of "System log"

Revision as of 05:31, 25 June 2021

The system log contains a detailed history of what has happened within MacroDroid. It is an essential tool to help debug any problems with your macros and to understand when your macros are firing.

There are four levels of debugging.

Detailed - A very detailed log of everything that has happened within MacroDroid. Useful when debugging problems to get as much information as possibe.
Standard - This is the default level and contains enough information to keep track of what is happening.
Warning - This will show only warnings or errors that have occurred in the app.
Extreme - This will show only error that have occurred in the app.

You can tweak the currently viewed log level via the drop down control at the top left of the system log screen.

By default all triggers, actions and constraints will be shown in the log but these can be enabled/disabled as you choose. Futhermore you can filter the log to enable/disable individual macros and global variables to help you drill down to only the information you are interested in.

Any individual macro can be disabled from logging via the edit macro page. This is useful for example if you have one macro that runs very regularly and ends up filling the log with non useful information.

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 The system log contains a detailed history of what has happened within MacroDroid. It is an essential tool to help debug any problems with your macros and to understand when your macros are firing.
-There are three levels of debugging.
+There are four levels of debugging.
-* Standard - This is the default level and contains enough infornation to keep track of what is happening.
+* Detailed - A very detailed log of everything that has happened within MacroDroid. Useful when debugging problems to get as much information as possibe.
-* Extended - This adds an additional level of detail, sometimes this is helpful to debug complex issues such as when a time based trigger doesn't appear to be firing at the correct time.
+* Standard - This is the default level and contains enough information to keep track of what is happening.
-* Extreme - This adds additional log messages for a few specific scenarios. Most users will never need to use this as it's mostly used for the developer to track complex issues.
+* Warning - This will show only warnings or errors that have occurred in the app.
+* Extreme - This will show only error that have occurred in the app.
-You can enable extended and extreme logging via the options menu on the system log screen.
+You can tweak the currently viewed log level via the drop down control at the top left of the system log screen.
-By default all triggers, actions and constraints will be logged but any of these can be turned off via the menu on the system log page.
+By default all triggers, actions and constraints will be shown in the log but these can be enabled/disabled as you choose. Futhermore you can filter the log to enable/disable individual macros and global variables to help you drill down to only the information you are interested in.
 Any individual macro can be disabled from logging via the edit macro page. This is useful for example if you have one macro that runs very regularly and ends up filling the log with non useful information.