Logging

python-dockerflow provides a JsonLogFormatter Python logging formatter that produces messages following the JSON schema for a common application logging format defined by the illustrious Mozilla Cloud Services group.

See also

For more information see the API documentation for the dockerflow.logging module.

Configuration

There a different ways to configure Python logging, please refer to the logging documentation to learn more.

The following examples should be considered excerpts and won’t be enough for your application to work. They only illustrate how to use the JSON logging formatter for a specific logger.

Dictionary based

A simple example configuration for a myproject logger could look like this:

import logging.config

cfg = {
    'version': 1,
    'formatters': {
        'json': {
            '()': 'dockerflow.logging.JsonLogFormatter',
            'logger_name': 'myproject'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'json'
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'myproject': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
        },
    }
}

logging.config.dictConfig(cfg)
logger = logging.getLogger('myproject')
logger.info('I am logging in mozlog format now! woo hoo!')

In this example, we set up a logger for myproject (you’d replace that with your project name) which has a single handler named console which uses the mozlog formatter to output log event data to stdout.

ConfigParser ini file based

Consider an ini file with the following content that does the same thing as the dictionary based configuratio above:

logging.ini

 [loggers]
 keys = root, myproject

 [handlers]
 keys = console

 [formatters]
 keys = json

 [logger_root]
 level = INFO
 handlers = console

 [logger_myproject]
 level = DEBUG
 handlers = console
 qualname = myproject

 [handler_console]
 class = StreamHandler
 level = DEBUG
 args = (sys.stdout,)
 formatter = json

 [formatter_json]
 class = dockerflow.logging.JsonLogFormatter

Then load the ini file using the logging module function logging.config.fileConfig():

myproject.py

 logging.config.fileConfig('logging.ini')
 logger = logging.getLogger('myproject')
 logger.info('I am logging in mozlog format now! woo hoo!')