klippy.log does not contain timestamps. They would be useful to troubleshoot problems.

Hello @anda ! [image] anda: does not contain timestamps It does. It’s coded. You can see it with https://sineos.github.io/

Well, this gives metrics over time, but we cannot tell at which time a specific error or debug message was printed in the log.

For example, I am trying to understand why my mainboard takes so long to respond after a restart. I get a series of ‘mcu ‘mcu’: Unable to open serial port’ messages in the log, but no way of saying the elapsed time between each and overall.

[image] anda: elapsed time between each and overall. Klipper is offering tons of timing information to exactly diagnose such topics but unfortunately they all require in-depth understanding of the code and hardware specification to interpret: Stats 1114061.8: gcodein=0 mcu: mcu_awake=0.006 …

again, that is not useful for troubleshooting error messages that are time sensitive. I am a software engineer, so I can understand the code quite well. It would simply need a basic format better than what it is right now… For example: Extruder max_extrude_ratio=0.266081 mcu 'mcu': Starting serial…

Hi anda, when I started with Klipper, I had the same idea/question :wink: I can’t find the very short discussion, that we had here about “timestamps” in this forum, but I remember even Kevin was involved. Very long time ago! It took a while for me to halfway understand the Klipper timestamping. D…

Everyone keeps pointing the timestamps for printer commands, I am talking about klipper debug and error messages that are not stamped in the logs.

[image] anda: I am talking about klipper debug and error messages that are not stamped in the logs. I’m totally with you! “klippy.log” needs that! You might open a pull request! I don’t know if there might be some obstacles to open a pull request, I never started a pull request. I will su…

Add option to print timestamps in klippy.log

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Add option to print timestamps in klippy.log

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