A parser for Unified logging .tracev3 files.
This is a work in progress. Currently this does not support the first version of tracev3 which is seen on macOS 10.12.0 (which uses catalog v2). It has been tested to work on catalog v3 files used in macOS 10.12.5 upto the current 10.15. Also tested on iOS 12.x successfully.
| Version | Status | Method of testing |
|---|---|---|
| macOS 10.12.5- 10.15 | tested to work | Unknown |
| iOS 16 | tested | diff of textlog shows minor differences (uninterpereted tags and values mostly e.g. 0 means false) |
Support for iOS 16.x is tested.
MIT
Python 3.6+ and the following modules
The version on PyPi is old, and I need to discuss with @ydkhatri about the release process.
UnifiedLogReader (and the dependencies) can be installed using pip install git+https://github.com/Schramp/UnifiedLogReader.git lz4 biplist ipaddress
Do not download from here, unless you want the latest code.
For development, if you only need the dependencies, use pip install -r requirements.txt
The script needs access to files from 3 folders (same on iOS or macOS)
The tracev3 files are located within the diagnostics folder. If you have a disk image, just extract the diagnostics and uuidtext folders (shown at paths above) and provide it to this script.
Currently the script supports the default log output format, TSV and sqlite output.
SQLITE gives you every available field in an sqlite db
_TSVALL gives you every available field in a tab-seperated file
_LOGDEFAULT gives only those fields shown by 'log' utility (with no options specified)
G:\>c:\Python37-32\python.exe c:\Github\UnifiedLogReader\UnifiedLogReader.py -h
usage: UnifiedLogReader.py [-h] [-f OUTPUT_FORMAT] [-l LOG_LEVEL]
uuidtext_path timesync_path tracev3_path
output_path
UnifiedLogReader is a tool to read macOS Unified Logging tracev3 files.
This is version 0.3 tested on macOS 10.12.5 - 10.15 and iOS 12.
Notes:
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If you have a .logarchive, then point uuidtext_path to the .logarchive folder,
the timesync folder is within the logarchive folder
positional arguments:
uuidtext_path Path to uuidtext folder (/var/db/uuidtext)
timesync_path Path to timesync folder (/var/db/diagnostics/timesync)
tracev3_path Path to either tracev3 file or folder to recurse (/var/db/diagnostics)
output_path An existing folder where output will be saved
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f OUTPUT_FORMAT, --output_format OUTPUT_FORMAT
SQLITE, TSV_ALL, LOG_DEFAULT (Default is LOG_DEFAULT)
-l LOG_LEVEL, --log_level LOG_LEVEL
Log levels: INFO, DEBUG, WARNING, ERROR (Default is INFO)The iOS 16.x unified logging has been tested by comparing the output of "log show" on macOS to the output of this project.
UnifiedLogReader.py -t True system_logs.logarchive/ system_logs.logarchive/timesync/ system_logs.logarchive/Persist/ /tmp/decode_log/outputThe output is not exactly ordered by time and there are small rounding errors on the timestamps (at the last digit), these differences have been ignored during comparison:
sort /tmp/decode_log/output/logs.txt | tee /tmp/decode_log/output/logs_sorted.txt | sed -E "s/^(2023....................)../\100/g" >/tmp/decode_log/output/logs_sorted_ts.txtThe the output is compared using diff (GNU diffutils) 3.7.
diff -W 450 --side-by-side -w /tmp/decode_log2/output8/logs_sorted_ts.txt /usr/users/work/MyLife/iPhone14/system_logs.logarchive_stripped_ts.txtnotable differences:
2023-06-01 10:56:04.247100+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Model name = <private> 2023-06-01 10:56:04.247100+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Model name = <private>
2023-06-01 10:56:04.252600+0200 0x665 Error 0x0 95 0 fseventsd: [com.apple.fsevents:daemon] event logs in <private> with volume UUID [<private>] and f_flags[0x14809098] out of sync with 2023-06-01 10:56:04.252600+0200 0x665 Error 0x0 95 0 fseventsd: [com.apple.fsevents:daemon] event logs in <private> with volume UUID [<private>] and f_flags[0x14809098] out of sync with
2023-06-01 10:56:04.253200+0200 0x69c Default 0x0 55 0 mobiletimerd: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra. 2023-06-01 10:56:04.253200+0200 0x69c Default 0x0 55 0 mobiletimerd: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra.
2023-06-01 10:56:04.253800+0200 0x65d Activity 0x40 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_system_path_for_identifier 2023-06-01 10:56:04.253800+0200 0x65d Activity 0x40 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_system_path_for_identifier
2023-06-01 10:56:04.253900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> retrieved current device boot-args: <private> 2023-06-01 10:56:04.253900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> retrieved current device boot-args: <private>
2023-06-01 10:56:04.253900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> retrieved current device boot-args: <private> 2023-06-01 10:56:04.253900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> retrieved current device boot-args: <private>
2023-06-01 10:56:04.254800+0200 0x643 Default 0x0 51 0 keybagd: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra. 2023-06-01 10:56:04.254800+0200 0x643 Default 0x0 51 0 keybagd: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra.
2023-06-01 10:56:04.255200+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra. 2023-06-01 10:56:04.255200+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (libMobileGestalt.dylib) Cache loaded with 5238 pre-cached in CacheData and 56 items in CacheExtra.
2023-06-01 10:56:04.258200+0200 0x65d Activity 0x41 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_query_t 2023-06-01 10:56:04.258200+0200 0x65d Activity 0x41 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_query_t
2023-06-01 10:56:04.258800+0200 0x665 Error 0x0 95 0 fseventsd: [com.apple.fsevents:daemon] event posted for <private> 2023-06-01 10:56:04.258800+0200 0x665 Error 0x0 95 0 fseventsd: [com.apple.fsevents:daemon] event posted for <private>
2023-06-01 10:56:04.261900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Using SensorExchangeHelper 2023-06-01 10:56:04.261900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Using SensorExchangeHelper
2023-06-01 10:56:04.261900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Using ACSK 2023-06-01 10:56:04.261900+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: [com.apple.cltm:thermalmonitor] <Notice> Using ACSK
2023-06-01 10:56:04.276800+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (CoreBrightness) [com.apple.CoreBrightness:default] Register notification block 2023-06-01 10:56:04.276800+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (CoreBrightness) [com.apple.CoreBrightness:default] Register notification block
2023-06-01 10:56:04.278100+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_populate_display_infos: Local call to iomfb_match_callback 2023-06-01 10:56:04.278100+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_populate_display_infos: Local call to iomfb_match_callback
2023-06-01 10:56:04.278200+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_match_callback: primary 2023-06-01 10:56:04.278200+0200 0x648 Default 0x0 61 0 thermalmonitord: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_match_callback: primary
2023-06-01 10:56:04.278400+0200 0x643 Activity 0x21 51 0 keybagd: (NearField) registerForRemoteCallbacks 2023-06-01 10:56:04.278400+0200 0x643 Activity 0x21 51 0 keybagd: (NearField) registerForRemoteCallbacks
2023-06-01 10:56:04.284300+0200 0x643 Default 0x21 51 0 keybagd: (NearField) [com.apple.nfc:Logging] -[NFHardwareManager <private>]:177 2023-06-01 10:56:04.284300+0200 0x643 Default 0x21 51 0 keybagd: (NearField) [com.apple.nfc:Logging] -[NFHardwareManager <private>]:177
2023-06-01 10:56:04.352100+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_register: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon, criteria: check 2023-06-01 10:56:04.352100+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_register: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon, criteria: check
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472700+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_register: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0), 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472700+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_register: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0),
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472700+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472700+0200 0x688 Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria, lower half: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria, lower half: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] xpc_activity_set_criteria: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] __XPC_ACTIVITY_CALLING_HANDLER__: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x99 <
2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_set_state: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0), 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] _xpc_activity_set_state: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x9969061c0),
> 2023-06-01 10:56:04.472800+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc.activity:Client] __XPC_ACTIVITY_CALLING_HANDLER__: com.apple.iomfb_bics_daemon (0x99
2023-06-01 10:56:04.475400+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_populate_display_infos: Local call to iomfb_match_callback 2023-06-01 10:56:04.475400+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_populate_display_infos: Local call to iomfb_match_callback
2023-06-01 10:56:04.475500+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_match_callback: primary 2023-06-01 10:56:04.475500+0200 0x6bc Default 0x0 97 0 IOMFB_bics_daemon: (IOMobileFramebuffer) iomfb_match_callback: primary
2023-06-01 10:56:04.497700+0200 0x65d Activity 0x42 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_copy_object 2023-06-01 10:56:04.497700+0200 0x65d Activity 0x42 93 0 fairplayd.H2: (libsystem_containermanager.dylib) container_copy_object
2023-06-01 10:56:04.509200+0200 0x673 Default 0x0 75 0 bluetoothuserd: [com.apple.bluetoothuser:daemon] Launching bluetoothuserd (<private>) 2023-06-01 10:56:04.509200+0200 0x673 Default 0x0 75 0 bluetoothuserd: [com.apple.bluetoothuser:daemon] Launching bluetoothuserd (<private>)
2023-06-01 10:56:04.611900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> updated state, will 2023-06-01 10:56:04.611900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> updated state, will
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> updated state, will 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> updated state, will
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): Notifying <private> of state 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): Notifying <private> of state
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Third party driver feature flag <private> enabled 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Third party driver feature flag <private> enabled
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Hardware does not support third party drivers 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Hardware does not support third party drivers
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Third party driver boot arg <private> enabled 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:ApplicationManager] Third party driver boot arg <private> enabled
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> did not update stat 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612100+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> did not update stat
2023-06-01 10:56:04.612200+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): Notifying <private> of state 2023-06-01 10:56:04.612200+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): Notifying <private> of state
2023-06-01 10:56:04.616800+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> did not update stat 2023-06-01 10:56:04.616800+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): <private> did not update stat
2023-06-01 10:56:04.616800+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): completed 2023-06-01 10:56:04.616800+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Daemon has activated): completed
2023-06-01 10:56:04.616900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): starting 2023-06-01 10:56:04.616900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): starting
2023-06-01 10:56:04.616900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda 2023-06-01 10:56:04.616900+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state:,<private | 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state:
> <private>
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state, will not 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state, will not
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state, will not 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> updated state, will not
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618000+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618600+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> did not update state 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618600+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> did not update state
2023-06-01 10:56:04.618600+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda 2023-06-01 10:56:04.618600+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): Notifying <private> of state upda
2023-06-01 10:56:04.620700+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> did not update state 2023-06-01 10:56:04.620700+0200 0x64d Default 0x0 73 0 driverkitd: [com.apple.km:StateManagement] State refresh (id: <private>, reason: Sent new drivers): <private> did not update state