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rosconsole DEBUG logger. How to use it?

asked 2016-08-05 11:50:35 -0600

Randerson
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updated 2016-08-05 11:54:50 -0600

Hello all,

I would like to know how to correct interact with the log messages generated by ROS. I did some research about it but I could not find a satisfactory material. The situation that motivated this question was:

I am running a simple bagfile with scan data information. To avoid the problem with the difference of time between the machine and the scan data from the bagfile I used the flag --clock as suggested in the appropriate documentation, however I did not set the parameter use_sim_time to true. Because of this, when I try to see the scan data on rviz I receive the following message:

[ WARN] [1470408821.734840992]: MessageFilter [target=base_link ]: Dropped 100,00% of messages so far. Please turn the [ros.rviz.message_notifier] rosconsole logger to DEBUG for more information.

Because of this message I tried to somehow turn on the rosconsole logger to DEBUG but I realized that I did not know how to do it.

After this contextualization, I redo my question: How can I work correctly with the ROS's log messages, how can I have access to the messages printed from rviz and what is a best practice to handle with analogous situations?

Thanks

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answered 2016-08-05 12:07:09 -0600

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updated 2016-08-05 12:10:53 -0600

You can use rqt_logger_level to adjust logger levels via a GUI:

rosrun rqt_logger_level rqt_logger_level

You can also do it from the command line, via service calls:

rosservice list
rosservice call /rviz_123/get_loggers <tab><tab>
rosservice call /rviz_123/set_logger_level <tab><tab>

For the set_logger_level call, you'd then have to manually set level to debug and also pick a specific logger from the list returned by get_loggers

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In the specific case of rviz (because it has an anonymous node name), there is a --debug option that initializes the logging level to debug. You'll still have to use the above options if rviz is already running.

William ( 2016-08-05 13:24:53 -0600 )edit

This has been updated to --log-level-debug

AndyZe ( 2020-06-24 10:49:50 -0600 )edit

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