How to enable console logging

While a Datazoom collector prints warning and error messages to the debug console by default, this behavior can be changed by updating the default settings.

Supported Logging Levels

The following logging levels (ordered by increasing verbosity and decreasing severity) can be chosen at runtime:

The default logging level setting is warning, to show both warning and error log messages.

Setting the Logging Level

There are several ways to set the current logging level.

1) Set the desired level as the datazoom_log query string of the web page URL.

For instance, the collector on this example page will show the default logging behavior when visited as: https://demo.datazoomlabs.com/example_html5_native/index.html
On the other hand, debug and info logging can be enabled through the extra query string as shown below:
https://demo.datazoomlabs.com/example_html5_native/index.html?datazoom_log=debug

2) Set the desired level as the log query string of the src URL of a <script> tag

If a <script> tag is used to load the Datazoom collector, the developer of the web page can choose to add the log query string (on the Datazoom collector URL) with the desired logging level. For example:

<script src="https://platform.datazoom.io/beacon/v1/config?configuration_id=xxxxxx&log=info"></script>

3) Set the desired level by calling the datazoom root object’s setLogLevel() method

For example:

<script src="https://platform.datazoom.io/beacon/v1/config?configuration_id=xxxxxx"></script>
...
<script>
...
datazoom.setLogLevel("verbose");
...
</script>

Filtering the Log Messages

The log messages that were printed to the console can be easily filtered for use cases such as:

1. Including or excluding Datazoom originated log messages based on the presence of the [DZ] tag at the beginning of each log message.

2. Showing or hiding log messages of specific severity/verbosity levels by using the built-in visibility control of the browser inspector console, as depicted below: