Filter tags in LogCat (in Android Eclipse Plug-In)

Question

There is a TextField "Filter" below the LogCat output. However, it seems to filter only the Message-column. Id like to filter Tags also. Because there are my class names.

How can I achieve it?

Answer 1

A sample from the ADB manual:

adb logcat ActivityManager:I MyApp:D *:S

The *:S is vital as this would suppress other tags different than the ones specified by us.

Unfortunately, one can't use wildcards in the names, i.e.:

adb logcat ActivityManager:I MyApp*:D *:S

wouldn't work.

Answer 2

this should be the same across all platforms, but I'm specifically doing this on Mac Snow leopard, helios....

with the latest eclipse and android plugin, go to window -> show view -> android -> logcat

then in the upper right corner of the view there are filter buttons : "V" "D" "I" "W" "E" then a + edit and -

click on the + and type in your tag, or pid

enjoy filtered logCat

Answer 3

There's a button that looks like a green + in the upper right of the log cat window, if you mouse over it says "Create Filter" in the popup from that you can filter by log tag. It creates a new tab in log cat with the filter name you specified. Then all of the output of that tag will go to that tab and not the "Log" tab.

Answer 4

In Eclipse, if I would like to exclude those annoying Choreographer messages,I write this filter in the logcat filter TextField : tag:^(?!Choreographer).*$ and it excludes all messages which tag starts with the text Choreographer

If you want multiple exclusions : tag:^(?!Choreographer|dalvikvm-heap|Trace).*$

Answer 5

When filtering, you must use no whitespace after 'tag:' and all is case sensitive. For example:

tag:MIRKO

and not

TAG: mirko

Answer 6

Old question, but still relevant, and didn't see this answer among the answers here.

To filter by multiple columns in logcat textfield, simply use a space between regular expressions, and the column title in lower case followed by : to assign the regex to that column instead of the default "text:"

for example:

tag:wif text:event

a space '' is used as an AND argument.
a single '|' without space is an OR.

Regarding one of the comments I've seen here - There is no realy need for a wildcard, since it is automatically applied before and after the filter text.
If you don't want wildcard, you can use regular expression syntax to restrict the string.
for example: ^starswith or fullword$

TIP: if you want to match a space character or a tab in your output, just type in: \s at the desired place.