MacSysAdmin 2017 'Apple's Unified Logging for Sysadmins' Session Links

Here are links and resources related to my MacSysAdmin 2017 talk: ‘Apple’s Unified Logging for Sysadmins’. Enjoying another fantastic conference here in Göteborg, Sweden, and thanks to all who attended! You can find the slides and video recording for this session and all the others at the MacSysAdmin documentation site.

Apple Documentation

• Developer Documentation: Logging
• Bug Reporting: Profiles and Logs (Exhaustive list of logging-related configuration profiles for all Apple OSes)
• WWDC 2016: Unified Logging and Activity Tracing
• WWDC 2014: Fix Bugs Faster using Activity Tracing

Blog posts

• krypted.com - Logs, Logging and Logger (Oh My!)
• Eclectic Light Company - Many Sierra logging-related articles
• Emily Kausalik - Finding Shutdown Causes in macOS Sierra’s Mind-boggling New Logging
• Blackbag Technologies Blog - Accessing Unified Logs from an Image
• Henry Stamerjohann and Éric Falconnier - State of logging (for Amsys blog)
• Michael Tsai - Log/Console-related articles
• Daniel Jalkut - Log Littering
• Airbnb Engineering Blog - Introducing Syslog to AWS Kinesis via Osquery

Other presentations

• Joe Chilcote - Peeling Back the Bark: Demystifying ’log’ (PSUMAC 2017)
• Sarah Edwards (mac4n6 blog) - Logs Unite! Forensic Analysis of Apple Unified Logs
• Nic Scott - macOS Logs (U of Utah Mac Managers Meeting)
• Ed Marczak - Logs, Damn Logs, and Statistics (PSUMAC 2012)

Tools

• Eclectic Light Company: MakeLogarchive, Consolation
• Unified Logging Support in CocoaLumberjack

Misc

• Zachary Waldowski - Apple Configuration Profile for Logging in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra (Well-annotated configuration profile for logging configuration options)
• MacAdmins Podcast - Episode 52: Digital Forensics on the Mac with Sarah Edwards
• Radar #34351855 - re: Apple’s logging documentation website

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