Coalesce repeating log messages

[futuretap]

Is there a way to coalesce repeating log messages similar to syslog?
Something like this:

Jan  1 13:04:22 log message
Jan  1 13:05:34 --- last message repeated 76 times ---

[bpoplauschi]

@futuretap no there isn't, but it could. Are you interested in doing this?

[futuretap]

Not that important that I'd invest the time digging deeper into the framework. Just thought I might have overseen it.

[rivera-ernesto]

I think it would be up to the loggers to implement this:

• Store the last message.
• Compare new messages to the last one.
• Either update the counter if equal or save the new last message and reset the counter.

The problem being that some loggers may not be able to update the last log output. For instance Xcode's console. So similar messages are delayed until a different message arrives.

[yvbeek]

This would be a nice feature, but it might be quite difficult to implement properly.
In our case we have some repeating log messages but most of the time it's a set of log entries that is repeated, e.g.:

13:04:22.100 Log message A
13:04:22.105 Log message B
13:05:22.230 Log message A
13:05:22.236 Log message B

[bpoplauschi]

Agree about the difficulty. Closing this for now, if there is anyone up to the task, feel free to reopen it

[rivera-ernesto]

I think it is a good idea to keep feature requests' issues open as they haven't been addressed off-course, but also because it makes them more visible for someone looking to for tasks to help with.

[futuretap]

@rivera-ernesto +1

[bpoplauschi]

I agree, even if I don't like seeing unattended issues, I think you are right.

[rivera-ernesto]

Yeah, I know we love closing issues, but there's a better way to do so ;)

[adamac]

+1

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[bpoplauschi]

I still think this feature can be done by writing/overwriting custom loggers, as mentioned above. They just need to retain the last message or so. Closing, this conversation is very old.