diff --git a/test/test.ts b/test/test.ts
index 5e882f2..7baa164 100644
--- a/test/test.ts
+++ b/test/test.ts
@@ -35,4 +35,9 @@ tap.test('should be able to log things', async () => {
   testSmartLog.log('silly', 'hi');
 });
 
+tap.test('should create a log group', async () => {
+  const logGroup = testSmartLog.createLogGroup('some cool transaction');
+  logGroup.log('info', 'this is logged from a log group');
+})
+
 tap.start();
diff --git a/ts/smartlog.classes.loggroup.ts b/ts/smartlog.classes.loggroup.ts
index d4e20f6..3543b49 100644
--- a/ts/smartlog.classes.loggroup.ts
+++ b/ts/smartlog.classes.loggroup.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
 import * as plugins from './smartlog.plugins';
+import { Smartlog } from './smartlog.classes.smartlog';
 
-export class LogGroup {}
\ No newline at end of file
+export class LogGroup {
+  public smartlogRef: Smartlog;
+  public transactionId: string;
+  public groupId = plugins.isounique.uni();
+  
+  constructor(smartlogInstance: Smartlog, transactionIdArg: string) {
+    this.smartlogRef = smartlogInstance;
+    this.transactionId = transactionIdArg;
+  }
+
+  public log(logLevelArg: plugins.smartlogInterfaces.TLogLevel, logMessageArg: string, logDataArg?: any) {
+    this.smartlogRef.log(logLevelArg, logMessageArg, logDataArg, {
+      id: plugins.isounique.uni(),
+      type: 'none',
+      group: this.groupId,
+      instance: this.smartlogRef.uniInstanceId,
+      transaction: this.transactionId
+    });
+  }
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ts/smartlog.classes.smartlog.ts b/ts/smartlog.classes.smartlog.ts
index 5e83d0b..a9f0bf6 100644
--- a/ts/smartlog.classes.smartlog.ts
+++ b/ts/smartlog.classes.smartlog.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import * as plugins from './smartlog.plugins';
 
 import { LogRouter } from './smartlog.classes.logrouter';
+import { LogGroup } from '.';
 
 export interface ISmartlogContructorOptions {
   logContext: plugins.smartlogInterfaces.ILogContext;
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ export class Smartlog implements plugins.smartlogInterfaces.ILogDestination {
   private logContext: plugins.smartlogInterfaces.ILogContext;
   private minimumLogLevel: plugins.smartlogInterfaces.TLogLevel;
 
-  private uniInstanceId: string = plugins.isounique.uni();
+  public uniInstanceId: string = plugins.isounique.uni();
 
   private consoleEnabled: boolean;
 
@@ -127,4 +128,8 @@ export class Smartlog implements plugins.smartlogInterfaces.ILogDestination {
       `LOG => ${new Date().getHours()}:${new Date().getMinutes()}:${new Date().getSeconds()} => ${logLine}`
     );
   }
+
+  public createLogGroup(transactionId: string = 'none') {
+    return new LogGroup(this, transactionId);
+  }
 }