Environments

For established applications, you may find that you have several environments for various stages of the development cycle.

Here's a real world example of how a company manages their mobile logs.

Software Development Cycle

The company use GitFlow branching model and has 4 primary branches.

Branch	Description
production	The code that is deployed to production.
staging	The code prior to deploying to production. This acts as a staging area before pushing to production.
develop	The active development branch
sandbox	A branch to used for internal demos and/or QA.

There are a total of 8 environment Birch environments to match this setup.

Environment	Log Level	Flush Period	Description
ios-production	ERROR	1h	Only track errors by default.
ios-staging	TRACE	30s	Since QA is run here and there are few devices, log verbosely.
ios-sandbox	TRACE	30s	Same as staging
ios-develop	ERROR	1h	Developers have access to console so remote logging likely unneccessary.
android-production	ERROR	1h	Only track errors by default.
android-staging	TRACE	30s	Since QA is run here and there are few devices, log verbosely.
android-sandbox	TRACE	30s	Same as staging
android-develop	ERROR	1h	Developers have access to logcat so remote logging likely unneccessary.