@talaikis/logkitty

logkitty

Display pretty Android and iOS logs without Android Studio or Console.app, with intuitive Command Line Interface.

Installation

yarn global add logkitty

Or if you prefer having it locally:

yarn add -D logkitty
yarn logkitty --help

Usage

logkitty <platform> <command> [options]

Command line help

You can inspect available platforms, command and options for a given platform by adding -h at the end, for example:

logkitty -h # prints available platforms and global options
logkitty android -h # prints commands and options for android
logkitty android tag -h # prints tag command syntax and options for android

Commands

• platform: android:
  • tag <tags...> - Show logs with matching tags.
  • app <appId> - Show logs from application with given identifier.
  • match <regexes...> - Show logs matching given patterns (all regexes have flags g and m).
  • custom <patterns...> - Use custom patters supported by Logcat.
  • all - Show all logs.
• platform: ios:
  • tag <tags...> - Show logs with matching tags (where tag is usually a name of the app).
  • match <regexes...> - Show logs matching given patterns (all regexes have flags g and m).
  • all - Show all logs.

Options

• common:

  • -h, --help - Display help
  • -v, --version - Display version

• platform android:

  tag, app, match and all commands support additional priority filtering options (sorted by priority):

  • -U, -u - Unknown priority (lowest)
  • -v, -v - Verbose priority
  • -D, -d - Debug priority (default)
  • -I, -i - Info priority
  • -W, -w - Warn priority
  • -E, -e - Error priority
  • -F, -f - Fatal priority
  • -S, -s - Silent priority (highest)

  For example logkitty android all -W will display all logs with priority warn, error and fatal.

• platform ios:

  tag, match and all commands support additional level filtering options:

  • -D, -d - Debug level
  • -I, -i - Info level
  • -E, -e - Error level

Examples

Show all logs with tag ReactNativeJS (and default priority - debug and above):

logkitty android tag ReactNativeJS
logkitty ios tag ReactNativeJS

Show all logs with priority info and above from application with identifier com.example.myApplication:

logkitty android app com.example.myApplication -i

Show all logs matching /CodePush/gm regex:

logkitty android match CodePush
logkitty ios match CodePush

Show all logs with priority error or fatal for Android and _error level for iOS:

logkitty android all -e
logkitty ios all -e

Show logs using custom patterns - silence all logs and display only the onces with tag my-tag and priority debug and above:

logkitty android custom *:S my-tag:D

Node API

If your building a tool and want to use Node API, head over to Node API documentation.