One of the most helpful parts of Iguana is the logging system. It’s super easy to build intuitive logging for your own components using it. Here are a few pointers:

iguana.log* gives us calls to the logging system

So this is an example of a log message:

iguana.logInfo("#custom #me This is a custom log")

You can use #hashtags in your log messages

This makes it a little easier to view the logs and filter on the tags by clicking on them:

See the #custom. If you were to click on it, this is what you would see:

Cool eh? Very nice way of filtering your log data. Switching on Matches only:

I guess we probably over designed it have logInfo and logWarning etc. in the system

That’s a bit of hang over from Iguana 6 days.

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We may simplify things in the future and make all these log commands like logInfo etc. just be aliases for log.

#hashtags are a simpler more flexible way of doing things.

You can relate messages together using message id that is returned from queue.push{data=Message}

This is how you do it:

local MessageId = queue.push{data="A message"}
iguana.logInfo("This is associated with that message.", MessageId)

Now this custom informational log you just created, will be related in the logs to the message queued.

That’s it! Simple and powerful.

Custom Logging

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