Upload Logs from an MDK App

SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services provides administrators, developers and support staff with extensive logs and traces functionality to troubleshoot application issues. You can control the amount of information that is captured by setting the log level for individual logging components.

In this step, you will enable client log upload policy in SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services Cockpit for a given MDK app.

Login to Mobile Services Cockpit, click com.sap.mdk.demo | Client Policies.

Enable Client Log Upload option and click Save.

Other policy parameters like Log Level, Delete Uploaded Log After, Maximum Number of Logs and Maximum Log Size currently have no effect.

You can find more details about Client Log Upload feature.

Logs help you trace events that occur while your application is running. You can create logging actions, set their priority levels and upload stored log entries.

You will create 3 actions:

• Log action of Type SetState: to turn the logger On, Off or Toggle

• Log action of Type SetLevel: to set log level (Debug, Info, Warn or Error)

• Log action of Type Upload: to upload logs from app to Mobile Services

You can find more details about MDK Log Actions.

First, create a log action of type SetState:

Right-click on the Actions folder | New MDK Action | Log Action | Next.

Provide the below information:

Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation step.

Next, create a log action of type SetLevel:

Right-click on the Actions folder | New MDK Action | Log Action | Next.

Provide the below information:

Setting log level to debug is not recommended for productive environment.

Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation step.

Next, create a log action of type Upload:

Right-click on the Actions folder | New MDK Action | Log Action | Next.

Provide the below information:

Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation step.

Double click on the LogSetState.action file | expand Common Action Properties and select LogSetLevel.action for Success Action.

Click Save.

You will add LogSetState.action at application on launch event so that when your app can start gathering logs on launch.

Double click on the Application.app file | click on + icon to add required action.

Double-click LogSetState.action and click OK.

This is how final results should look like.

Click Save.

You will define two message actions for displaying success or failure when Log upload action is triggered. Later, you will bind these actions in Common Action Properties of LogUpload.action.

First, you will create a success message action.

Right-click on the Actions folder | New MDK Action | Message Action | Next.

Provide the below information:

Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation step.

Next, create a failure message action.

Right-click on the Actions folder | New MDK Action | Message Action | Next.

Provide the below information:

Click Next and then Finish on the confirmation step.

Next, bind both actions in Common Action Properties of LogUpload.action.

Double click on the LogUpload.action and provide the below information:

You will add a toolbar item to the main page called Upload Logs. You will link toolbar item to LogUpload.action you just created in step 2.

In Main page, drag and drop an Toolbar Item to the bottom right of the page.

Replace Caption to Upload Logs.

In the Properties pane, click the Events tab, click the link icon for the OnPress property to open the object browser.

Double Click on the LogUpload.action action and click OK to set it as the OnPress Action.

Save the changes to the Main page.

Deploy the updated application to your MDK client.

Right-click on the MDK Application in the project explorer pane and select MDK Deploy and Activate, click Next and deploy to Mobile Services.

Make sure to select same App ID as you chose in previous tutorial.

Re-launch the app on your device, you may asked to authenticate with passcode or Touch ID or Fingerprint. You will see a Confirmation pop-up, click OK.

At OnLaunch event, app starts gathering logs.

Click Upload Logs to upload client logs from app to SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services.

Open SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services Cockpit, click Analytics | Logs.

Navigate to Technical Logs tab. You may set criteria to filter some specific log entries.
For example, choose Application ID as com.sap.mdk.demo
and Type as Client Log.

You may select required log entries and then either view them directly in Mobile Services Cockpit or download them locally.

You can find more details about Uploading and Viewing Client Logs.