Many console messsages: Tracing is disabled and this 'getSpan' returns null

[scopendo]

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Version

8.14.1

Steps to Reproduce

When tracing is disabled, we see the following message a lot in the console output when running debug builds.

[sentry]: [info] Tracing is disabled and this 'getSpan' returns null.

I know that we can disable that by setting options.debug = false but that disables all Sentry logging. Is there a way to have this less frequent as it doesn't seem terribly helpful even in debug mode?

Dependencies

• sentry: "8.14.1"
• sentry_dart_plugin: "2.4.1"
• sentry_dio: "8.14.1"
• sentry_flutter: "8.14.1"

Expected Result

Less verbosity.

Actual Result

Too many console messages.

Are you willing to submit a PR?

None

[buenaflor]

@scopendo hey, starting with the next major we will only log warning messages by default when debug is true and allow to override this with options.diagnosticLevel = SentryLevel.info for example and we will clean up some of the logging as well.

diagnosticLevel is available now but there is currently a bug that is not overriding the log level properly. We'll fix that in the next release 8.14.2 then you'll be able to set the diagnosticLevel to your preference as well

but yes we agree that currently there is too much logging happening

[buenaflor]

We've released improvements in 8.14.2