JustLog

What is JustLog?

JustLog takes logging on iOS to the next level. It supports console, file and remote Logstash logging via TCP socket with no effort. Support for logz.io available.

At Just Eat, logging and monitoring are fundamental parts of our job as engineers. Whether you are a back-end engineer or a front-end one, you’ll often find yourself in the situation where understanding how your software behaves in production is important, if not critical. The ELK stack for real-time logging has gained great adoption over recent years, mainly in the back-end world where multiple microservices often interact with each other.

In the mobile world, the common approach to investigating issues is gathering logs from devices or trying to reproduce the issue by following a sequence of reported steps. Mobile developers are mostly familiar with tools such as Google Analytics or Fabric.io but they are tracking systems, not fully fledged logging solutions.

We believe tracking is different in nature from logging and that mobile apps should take advantage of ELK too in order to take their monitoring and analysis to another level. Remote logging the right set of information could provide valuable information that would be difficult to gather otherwise, unveil unexpected behaviours and bugs, and even if the data was properly anonymized, identify the sequences of actions of singular users.

JustLog takes logging on iOS to the next level. It supports console, file and remote Logstash logging via TCP socket out of the box. You can also setup JustLog to use logz.io with no effort. JustLog relies on CocoaAsyncSocket and SwiftyBeaver, exposes a simple swifty API but it also plays just fine with Objective-C.

JustLog sets the focus on remote logging, but fully covers the basic needs of local console and file logging.

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