Logging Enhancements (Revision #33)

The all-new Log Viewer makes it easy to troubleshoot problems. It’s available in the Help menu (under View Log), and works independently from Data Studio’s normal log file.

The Log Viewer in Action

Features Overview

• View events—including stdout, stderr, and uncaught exceptions—as they happen in the Console.
• All events are recorded while the Log Viewer is open and can be viewed at a later time from the Archive.
• The Log Viewer and Console contents can be copied to the clipboard.
• Logs are filtered based on error levels.
• The loggeriewer is configured to write 3 files of 300 KB each.
• By default, a rolling file logger is always enabled to ~/.datastudio/datastudio.log.
• Format used is "%d{M/d HH:mm:ss.SSS} %C{1}.%M %m%n" layout.

Documentation -> Logging

Help window Log

 Log Viewer : Available in the Help-View Log Menu

• New Error Log Viewer and Console to assist in application troubleshooting.
• You can now view events as they happen in this new console – Entries will be displayed once it has been opened. All events will be recorded and can later be viewed from the Archive.
• This new option invokes Log Viewer dialog and works independently of the normal log file.
• By default, a rolling file logger is always enabled to ~/.datastudio/datastudio.log.
• Logs are Filtered based on error levels.
• The Logger is configured to write 3 files of 300KB each.
• Format used is "%d{M/d HH:mm:ss.SSS} %C{1}.%M %m%n" layout.
• The Log Viewer and Console can now be copied to the Clipboard.
• This new feature intercepts stdout, stderr, and uncaught exceptions and displays them in the Console.

Documentation -> Logging