Check if Datadog SDK is properly initialized
After you configure Datadog SDK and run the app for the first time, check your debugger console in Xcode. The SDK implements several consistency checks and outputs relevant warnings if something is misconfigured.
Debugging
When writing your application, you can enable development logs by setting the verbosityLevel
value. Relevant messages from the SDK with a priority equal to or higher than the provided level are output to the debugger console in Xcode:
Datadog.verbosityLevel = .debug
If all goes well you should see output similar to this saying that a batch of RUM data was properly uploaded:
[DATADOG SDK] 🐶 → 17:23:09.849 [DEBUG] ⏳ (rum) Uploading batch...
[DATADOG SDK] 🐶 → 17:23:10.972 [DEBUG] → (rum) accepted, won't be retransmitted: success
Recommendation: Use Datadog.verbosityLevel
in DEBUG
configuration, and unset it in RELEASE
.
Using DDURLSessionDelegate
with your own session delegate
If you want to automatically track network requests with DDURLSessionDelegate
but your app already implements its own session delegate, you can use either inheritance or composition patterns and forward calls to DDURLSessionDelegate
.
When using inheritance, use DDURLSessionDelegate
as a base class for your custom delegate and make sure to call the super
implementation from your overridden methods. For example:
class YourCustomDelegateURLSessionDelegate: DDURLSessionDelegate {
override func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?) {
super.urlSession(session, task: task, didCompleteWithError: error) // forward to Datadog delegate
/* your custom logic */
}
}
When using composition, leverage Datadog’s __URLSessionDelegateProviding
protocol to keep an internal instance of DDURLSessionDelegate
and forward calls to ddURLSessionDelegate
. For example:
private class YourCustomDelegateURLSessionDelegate: NSObject, URLSessionTaskDelegate, URLSessionDataDelegate, __URLSessionDelegateProviding {
// MARK: - __URLSessionDelegateProviding conformance
let ddURLSessionDelegate = DDURLSessionDelegate()
// MARK: - __URLSessionDelegateProviding handling
func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didFinishCollecting metrics: URLSessionTaskMetrics) {
ddURLSessionDelegate.urlSession(session, task: task, didFinishCollecting: metrics) // forward to Datadog delegate
/* your custom logic */
}
func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?) {
ddURLSessionDelegate.urlSession(session, task: task, didCompleteWithError: error) // forward to Datadog delegate
/* your custom logic */
}
func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, dataTask: URLSessionDataTask, didReceive data: Data) {
ddURLSessionDelegate.urlSession(session, dataTask: dataTask, didReceive: data) // forward to Datadog delegate
/* your custom logic */
}
}
Note: If using composition, ddURLSessionDelegate
must receive all necessary calls listed in __URLSessionDelegateProviding
protocol comments. Your delegate needs to:
- implement
URLSessionTaskDelegate
and forward: - implement
URLSessionDataDelegate
and forward:
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles: