1947173 - GleanDebugActivity doesn't produce logs before onboarding flow

Status: NEW

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, defect, P4)

Description

[Polly [:polly]]

When debugging glean pings in Fenix using a command such as:

adb shell am start -n org.mozilla.fenix.debug/mozilla.telemetry.glean.debug.GleanDebugActivity \
 --ez logPings true

Nothing appears in logcat until after the onboarding flow is complete.
We think this is because the glean log level command is passed in during init, which is now delayed until after onboarding.

Comment 1

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

For context:
In bug 1900308 we moved log init to Glean.init to avoid calling into glean-core early.
That's why now we don't get those logs until Glean is initialized and due to the onobardinf flow that initalization might be delayed.

While we can maybe re-enable the logs (by doing just the log init early once we have libxul loaded, but not Glean init), triggering pings through the debug activity will still not actually submit anything until after onboarding of course.