What you can learn from browsing the log, and why it’s so important in diagnosis and troubleshooting, research into macOS, and measuring performance. With a worked example.
LogUI
An introduction to the Unified log used on Macs and Apple’s devices. Its goals, how logs are stored and maintained, their content, privacy protection, and tools available to access them.
How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.
How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.
A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.
These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.
Security services including TXM, Core Crypto, AMFI, Credential Manager and the SEP Key Store, Gatekeeper and AppleSystemPolicy, tracked during startup.
There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.
With macOS support for Intel Macs coming to an end with Tahoe, it’s time to reconsider the role of SilentKnight in the future. Plus two more updates.
If you only have access to the log files of a Mac or device and can’t create a logarchive of them, this new build offers a solution, plus detailed info about a logarchive to help you browse its contents.
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