9. Logging

eProsima Fast DDS provides an extensible built-in logging module that exposes the following main functionalities:

• Three different logging levels: Log::Kind::Info, Log::Kind::Warning, and Log::Kind::Error (see Logging Messages).

• Message filtering according to different criteria: category, content, or source file (see Filters).

• Output to STDOUT, STDERR and/or log files (see Consumers).

This section is devoted to explain the use, configuration, and extensibility of Fast DDS’ logging module.

• 9.1. Module Structure
• 9.2. Log Entry Specification
• 9.3. Logging Thread
• 9.4. Logging Messages
• 9.5. Module Configuration
  • 9.5.1. Log Entry
    • 9.5.1.1. Timestamp
    • 9.5.1.2. Category
    • 9.5.1.3. Verbosity Level
    • 9.5.1.4. Message
    • 9.5.1.5. File Context
    • 9.5.1.6. Function Name
  • 9.5.2. Register Consumers
  • 9.5.3. Reset Configuration
  • 9.5.4. XML Configuration
• 9.6. Filters
  • 9.6.1. Category Filtering
  • 9.6.2. File Name Filtering
  • 9.6.3. Content Filtering
  • 9.6.4. Reset Logging Filters
• 9.7. Consumers
  • 9.7.1. StdoutConsumer
  • 9.7.2. StdoutErrConsumer
  • 9.7.3. FileConsumer
• 9.8. Disable Logging Module
• 9.9. Old Log macros disable