Disable logging entirely?

[Scott]

I saw the topic regarding the request to allow logging to be disabled for individual flows. I understand the reasoning for not wanting to make it possible for logging to be disabled in that manner.

But would you consider adding an option to disable logging across the board? Perhaps you could put up a stern warning regarding the necessity of capturing logs when attempting to obtain support?

I would just like to avoid constant and unnecessary writing to my device's file system.

I'm reminded of a scenario in which I'm setting up a certain application, & I can opt not to have a password in place at all. Then I go to set one up, and they force me to make it at least 8 characters or something like that. This is silly. If I can choose not to have a password at all, enforcing a certain length or complexity for the optional password doesn't make sense. In the same way, I can clear the log as often as I want, so why force it to be written in the first place?

[Martin]

The log is not written to the file system when option Log to SD card is disabled. It should also not affect performance in a noticeable way when Debug Logging is disabled.
However I could add an option to disable the log entirely since this seems not problematic to me. I'll add it to the todo list.

[Scott]

Thank you.

My device has no actual SD card, only emulated, so it still gets written to the file system.

I initially enabled the "Log to SD card" option, but upon doing so, I noticed that the regular log and the SD card log were both being written to, so it was obvious I should disable that option. I'm not sure if that is aberrant behavior or not.