Semantic Logger

Semantic Logger is a feature rich logging framework, and replacement for existing Ruby & Rails loggers.

• https://rocketjob.github.io/semantic_logger/

Documentation

Semantic Logger Guide

Reference Documentation

Upgrading to Semantic Logger v4.4

With some forking frameworks it is necessary to call reopen after the fork. With v4.4 the workaround for Ruby 2.5 crashes is no longer needed. I.e. Please remove the following line if being called anywhere:

SemanticLogger::Processor.instance.instance_variable_set(:@queue, Queue.new)

Logging Destinations

Logging to the following destinations are all supported "out-of-the-box":

• File
• Screen
• ElasticSearch. (Use with Kibana for Dashboards and Visualizations)
• Graylog
• BugSnag
• NewRelic
• Splunk
• MongoDB
• Honeybadger
• Sentry
• HTTP
• TCP
• UDP
• Syslog
• Add any existing Ruby logger as another destination.
• Roll-your-own

Semantic Logger is capable of logging thousands of lines per second without slowing down the application. Traditional logging systems make the application wait while the log information is being saved. Semantic Logger avoids this slowdown by pushing log events to an in-memory queue that is serviced by a separate thread that only handles saving log information to multiple destinations / appenders.

Rails

When running Rails, use rails_semantic_logger instead of Semantic Logger directly since it will automatically replace the Rails default logger with Semantic Logger.

Rocket Job

Checkout the sister project Rocket Job: Ruby's missing batch system.

Fully supports Semantic Logger when running jobs in the background. Complete support for job metrics sent via Semantic Logger to your favorite dashboards.

Optional Dependencies

The following gems are only required when their corresponding appenders are being used, and are therefore not automatically included by this gem:

• Bugsnag Appender: gem 'bugsnag'
• MongoDB Appender: gem 'mongo' 1.9.2 or above
• NewRelic Appender: gem 'newrelic_rpm'
• Syslog Appender: gem 'syslog_protocol' 0.9.2 or above
• Syslog Appender to a remote syslogng server over TCP or UDP: gem 'net_tcp_client'
• Splunk Appender: gem 'splunk-sdk-ruby'
• Elasticsearch Appender: gem 'elasticsearch'
• Kafka Appender: gem 'ruby-kafka'

V4 Upgrade notes

The following changes need to be made when upgrading to V4:

• Ruby V2.3 / JRuby V9.1 is now the minimum runtime version.
• Replace calls to Logger#with_payload with SemanticLogger.named_tagged.
• Replace calls to Logger#payload with SemanticLogger.named_tags.
• MongoDB Appender requires Mongo Ruby Client V2 or greater.
• Appenders now write payload data in a seperate :payload tag instead of mixing them directly into the root elements to avoid name clashes.

As a result any calls like the following:

logger.debug foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar'

Must be replaced with the following in v4:

logger.debug payload: {foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar'}

Similarly, for measure blocks:

logger.measure_info('How long is the sleep', foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar') { sleep 1 } 

Must be replaced with the following in v4:

logger.measure_info('How long is the sleep', payload: {foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar'}) { sleep 1 } 

The common log call has not changed, and the payload is still logged directly:

logger.debug('log this', foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar')

Install

gem install semantic_logger

To configure a stand-alone application for Semantic Logger:

require 'semantic_logger'

# Set the global default log level
SemanticLogger.default_level = :trace

# Log to a file, and use the colorized formatter
SemanticLogger.add_appender(file_name: 'development.log', formatter: :color)

If running rails, see: Semantic Logger Rails

Author

Reid Morrison

Contributors

Versioning

This project uses Semantic Versioning.