Using only free tools, it isn’t difficult to get a log excerpt which will tell you, or someone else, exactly what occurred at the time.
Console
In Mojave, the unified log can contain up to 27 different fields, of which Consolation gives access to 26. Do you wish that to change?
At last you can change the size of the text used to display log excerpts. Also adds auto-checking for updates.
A simple command tool to write messages to the unified log in Sierra and later. Now signed, hardened and notarized.
They’re hidden away and never promoted at WWDC, but vitally important to every Mac user. Could you imagine not having Disk Utility, for example?
Fixes bug when copying coloured text from log extracts. Colours are now preserved when pasted into Rich Text, etc., documents.
Pinning down what went wrong when an app has crashed is never easy, but should be far more straightforward browsing the log using Consolation 3.
At last, a full release version of Consolation 3 brings a completely rewritten Help book which covers all its features.
Migration brings old software which isn’t really incompatible, but can slow your Mac down. This one was caught during startup.
Both are now notarized for added security, there is a small bug fixed in Consolation, and updated documentation.
