Logs in CodeIgniter

Hello guys, I have a question, in CI is there a sentence like $this->log()? this is a sentence for cake php that you can see
the values of variables or arrays and those values are write in a file called error.log, this sentence is similar to var_dump.


thank you for your answers.

log_message($level, $message)

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