| # Logrus <img src="http://i.imgur.com/hTeVwmJ.png" width="40" height="40" alt=":walrus:" class="emoji" title=":walrus:"/> [](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/actions?query=workflow%3ACI) [](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sirupsen/logrus) | |
| Logrus is a structured logger for Go (golang), completely API compatible with | |
| the standard library logger. | |
| **Logrus is in maintenance-mode.** We will not be introducing new features. It's | |
| simply too hard to do in a way that won't break many people's projects, which is | |
| the last thing you want from your Logging library (again...). | |
| This does not mean Logrus is dead. Logrus will continue to be maintained for | |
| security, (backwards compatible) bug fixes, and performance (where we are | |
| limited by the interface). | |
| I believe Logrus' biggest contribution is to have played a part in today's | |
| widespread use of structured logging in Golang. There doesn't seem to be a | |
| reason to do a major, breaking iteration into Logrus V2, since the fantastic Go | |
| community has built those independently. Many fantastic alternatives have sprung | |
| up. Logrus would look like those, had it been re-designed with what we know | |
| about structured logging in Go today. Check out, for example, | |
| [Zerolog][zerolog], [Zap][zap], and [Apex][apex]. | |
| [zerolog]: https://github.com/rs/zerolog | |
| [zap]: https://github.com/uber-go/zap | |
| [apex]: https://github.com/apex/log | |
| **Seeing weird case-sensitive problems?** It's in the past been possible to | |
| import Logrus as both upper- and lower-case. Due to the Go package environment, | |
| this caused issues in the community and we needed a standard. Some environments | |
| experienced problems with the upper-case variant, so the lower-case was decided. | |
| Everything using `logrus` will need to use the lower-case: | |
| `github.com/sirupsen/logrus`. Any package that isn't, should be changed. | |
| To fix Glide, see [these | |
| comments](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/553#issuecomment-306591437). | |
| For an in-depth explanation of the casing issue, see [this | |
| comment](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/570#issuecomment-313933276). | |
| Nicely color-coded in development (when a TTY is attached, otherwise just | |
| plain text): | |
|  | |
| With `logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.JSONFormatter{})`, for easy parsing by logstash | |
| or Splunk: | |
| ```text | |
| {"animal":"walrus","level":"info","msg":"A group of walrus emerges from the | |
| ocean","size":10,"time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562264131 -0400 EDT"} | |
| {"level":"warning","msg":"The group's number increased tremendously!", | |
| "number":122,"omg":true,"time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562471297 -0400 EDT"} | |
| {"animal":"walrus","level":"info","msg":"A giant walrus appears!", | |
| "size":10,"time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562500591 -0400 EDT"} | |
| {"animal":"walrus","level":"info","msg":"Tremendously sized cow enters the ocean.", | |
| "size":9,"time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562527896 -0400 EDT"} | |
| {"level":"fatal","msg":"The ice breaks!","number":100,"omg":true, | |
| "time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562543128 -0400 EDT"} | |
| ``` | |
| With the default `logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.TextFormatter{})` when a TTY is not | |
| attached, the output is compatible with the | |
| [logfmt](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kr/logfmt) format: | |
| ```text | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=debug msg="Started observing beach" animal=walrus number=8 | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=info msg="A group of walrus emerges from the ocean" animal=walrus size=10 | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=warning msg="The group's number increased tremendously!" number=122 omg=true | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=debug msg="Temperature changes" temperature=-4 | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=panic msg="It's over 9000!" animal=orca size=9009 | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=fatal msg="The ice breaks!" err=&{0x2082280c0 map[animal:orca size:9009] 2015-03-26 01:27:38.441574009 -0400 EDT panic It's over 9000!} number=100 omg=true | |
| ``` | |
| To ensure this behaviour even if a TTY is attached, set your formatter as follows: | |
| ```go | |
| logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.TextFormatter{ | |
| DisableColors: true, | |
| FullTimestamp: true, | |
| }) | |
| ``` | |
| #### Logging Method Name | |
| If you wish to add the calling method as a field, instruct the logger via: | |
| ```go | |
| logrus.SetReportCaller(true) | |
| ``` | |
| This adds the caller as 'method' like so: | |
| ```json | |
| {"animal":"penguin","level":"fatal","method":"github.com/sirupsen/arcticcreatures.migrate","msg":"a penguin swims by", | |
| "time":"2014-03-10 19:57:38.562543129 -0400 EDT"} | |
| ``` | |
| ```text | |
| time="2015-03-26T01:27:38-04:00" level=fatal method=github.com/sirupsen/arcticcreatures.migrate msg="a penguin swims by" animal=penguin | |
| ``` | |
| Note that this does add measurable overhead - the cost will depend on the version of Go, but is | |
| between 20 and 40% in recent tests with 1.6 and 1.7. You can validate this in your | |
| environment via benchmarks: | |
| ```bash | |
| go test -bench=.*CallerTracing | |
| ``` | |
| #### Case-sensitivity | |
| The organization's name was changed to lower-case--and this will not be changed | |
| back. If you are getting import conflicts due to case sensitivity, please use | |
| the lower-case import: `github.com/sirupsen/logrus`. | |
| #### Example | |
| The simplest way to use Logrus is simply the package-level exported logger: | |
| ```go | |
| package main | |
| import "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| func main() { | |
| logrus.WithFields(logrus.Fields{ | |
| "animal": "walrus", | |
| }).Info("A walrus appears") | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Note that it's completely api-compatible with the stdlib logger, so you can | |
| replace your `log` imports everywhere with `log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"` | |
| and you'll now have the flexibility of Logrus. You can customize it all you | |
| want: | |
| ```go | |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "os" | |
| log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| ) | |
| func init() { | |
| // Log as JSON instead of the default ASCII formatter. | |
| log.SetFormatter(&log.JSONFormatter{}) | |
| // Output to stdout instead of the default stderr | |
| // Can be any io.Writer, see below for File example | |
| log.SetOutput(os.Stdout) | |
| // Only log the warning severity or above. | |
| log.SetLevel(log.WarnLevel) | |
| } | |
| func main() { | |
| log.WithFields(log.Fields{ | |
| "animal": "walrus", | |
| "size": 10, | |
| }).Info("A group of walrus emerges from the ocean") | |
| log.WithFields(log.Fields{ | |
| "omg": true, | |
| "number": 122, | |
| }).Warn("The group's number increased tremendously!") | |
| log.WithFields(log.Fields{ | |
| "omg": true, | |
| "number": 100, | |
| }).Fatal("The ice breaks!") | |
| // A common pattern is to re-use fields between logging statements by re-using | |
| // the logrus.Entry returned from WithFields() | |
| contextLogger := log.WithFields(log.Fields{ | |
| "common": "this is a common field", | |
| "other": "I also should be logged always", | |
| }) | |
| contextLogger.Info("I'll be logged with common and other field") | |
| contextLogger.Info("Me too") | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| For more advanced usage such as logging to multiple locations from the same | |
| application, you can also create an instance of the `logrus` Logger: | |
| ```go | |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "os" | |
| "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| ) | |
| // Create a new instance of the logger. You can have any number of instances. | |
| var logger = logrus.New() | |
| func main() { | |
| // The API for setting attributes is a little different than the package level | |
| // exported logger. See Godoc. | |
| logger.Out = os.Stdout | |
| // You could set this to any `io.Writer` such as a file | |
| // file, err := os.OpenFile("logrus.log", os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0666) | |
| // if err == nil { | |
| // logger.Out = file | |
| // } else { | |
| // logger.Info("Failed to log to file, using default stderr") | |
| // } | |
| logger.WithFields(logrus.Fields{ | |
| "animal": "walrus", | |
| "size": 10, | |
| }).Info("A group of walrus emerges from the ocean") | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### Fields | |
| Logrus encourages careful, structured logging through logging fields instead of | |
| long, unparseable error messages. For example, instead of: `logrus.Fatalf("Failed | |
| to send event %s to topic %s with key %d")`, you should log the much more | |
| discoverable: | |
| ```go | |
| logrus.WithFields(logrus.Fields{ | |
| "event": event, | |
| "topic": topic, | |
| "key": key, | |
| }).Fatal("Failed to send event") | |
| ``` | |
| We've found this API forces you to think about logging in a way that produces | |
| much more useful logging messages. We've been in countless situations where just | |
| a single added field to a log statement that was already there would've saved us | |
| hours. The `WithFields` call is optional. | |
| In general, with Logrus using any of the `printf`-family functions should be | |
| seen as a hint you should add a field, however, you can still use the | |
| `printf`-family functions with Logrus. | |
| #### Default Fields | |
| Often it's helpful to have fields _always_ attached to log statements in an | |
| application or parts of one. For example, you may want to always log the | |
| `request_id` and `user_ip` in the context of a request. Instead of writing | |
| `logger.WithFields(logrus.Fields{"request_id": request_id, "user_ip": user_ip})` on | |
| every line, you can create a `logrus.Entry` to pass around instead: | |
| ```go | |
| requestLogger := logger.WithFields(logrus.Fields{"request_id": request_id, "user_ip": user_ip}) | |
| requestLogger.Info("something happened on that request") // will log request_id and user_ip | |
| requestLogger.Warn("something not great happened") | |
| ``` | |
| #### Hooks | |
| You can add hooks for logging levels. For example to send errors to an exception | |
| tracking service on `Error`, `Fatal` and `Panic`, info to StatsD or log to | |
| multiple places simultaneously, e.g. syslog. | |
| Logrus comes with [built-in hooks](hooks/). Add those, or your custom hook, in | |
| `init`: | |
| ```go | |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "log/syslog" | |
| "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| airbrake "gopkg.in/gemnasium/logrus-airbrake-hook.v2" | |
| logrus_syslog "github.com/sirupsen/logrus/hooks/syslog" | |
| ) | |
| func init() { | |
| // Use the Airbrake hook to report errors that have Error severity or above to | |
| // an exception tracker. You can create custom hooks, see the Hooks section. | |
| logrus.AddHook(airbrake.NewHook(123, "xyz", "production")) | |
| hook, err := logrus_syslog.NewSyslogHook("udp", "localhost:514", syslog.LOG_INFO, "") | |
| if err != nil { | |
| logrus.Error("Unable to connect to local syslog daemon") | |
| } else { | |
| logrus.AddHook(hook) | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Note: Syslog hooks also support connecting to local syslog (Ex. "/dev/log" or "/var/run/syslog" or "/var/run/log"). For the detail, please check the [syslog hook README](hooks/syslog/README.md). | |
| A list of currently known service hooks can be found in this wiki [page](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/wiki/Hooks) | |
| #### Level logging | |
| Logrus has seven logging levels: Trace, Debug, Info, Warning, Error, Fatal and Panic. | |
| ```go | |
| logrus.Trace("Something very low level.") | |
| logrus.Debug("Useful debugging information.") | |
| logrus.Info("Something noteworthy happened!") | |
| logrus.Warn("You should probably take a look at this.") | |
| logrus.Error("Something failed but I'm not quitting.") | |
| // Calls os.Exit(1) after logging | |
| logrus.Fatal("Bye.") | |
| // Calls panic() after logging | |
| logrus.Panic("I'm bailing.") | |
| ``` | |
| You can set the logging level on a `Logger`, then it will only log entries with | |
| that severity or anything above it: | |
| ```go | |
| // Will log anything that is info or above (warn, error, fatal, panic). Default. | |
| logrus.SetLevel(logrus.InfoLevel) | |
| ``` | |
| It may be useful to set `logrus.Level = logrus.DebugLevel` in a debug or verbose | |
| environment if your application has that. | |
| Note: If you want different log levels for global (`logrus.SetLevel(...)`) and syslog logging, please check the [syslog hook README](hooks/syslog/README.md#different-log-levels-for-local-and-remote-logging). | |
| #### Entries | |
| Besides the fields added with `WithField` or `WithFields` some fields are | |
| automatically added to all logging events: | |
| 1. `time`. The timestamp when the entry was created. | |
| 2. `msg`. The logging message passed to `{Info,Warn,Error,Fatal,Panic}` after | |
| the `AddFields` call. E.g. `Failed to send event.` | |
| 3. `level`. The logging level. E.g. `info`. | |
| #### Environments | |
| Logrus has no notion of environment. | |
| If you wish for hooks and formatters to only be used in specific environments, | |
| you should handle that yourself. For example, if your application has a global | |
| variable `Environment`, which is a string representation of the environment you | |
| could do: | |
| ```go | |
| import ( | |
| "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| ) | |
| func init() { | |
| // do something here to set environment depending on an environment variable | |
| // or command-line flag | |
| if Environment == "production" { | |
| logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.JSONFormatter{}) | |
| } else { | |
| // The TextFormatter is default, you don't actually have to do this. | |
| logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.TextFormatter{}) | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| This configuration is how `logrus` was intended to be used, but JSON in | |
| production is mostly only useful if you do log aggregation with tools like | |
| Splunk or Logstash. | |
| #### Formatters | |
| The built-in logging formatters are: | |
| * `logrus.TextFormatter`. Logs the event in colors if stdout is a tty, otherwise | |
| without colors. | |
| * *Note:* to force colored output when there is no TTY, set the `ForceColors` | |
| field to `true`. To force no colored output even if there is a TTY set the | |
| `DisableColors` field to `true`. For Windows, see | |
| [github.com/mattn/go-colorable](https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable). | |
| * When colors are enabled, levels are truncated to 4 characters by default. To disable | |
| truncation set the `DisableLevelTruncation` field to `true`. | |
| * When outputting to a TTY, it's often helpful to visually scan down a column where all the levels are the same width. Setting the `PadLevelText` field to `true` enables this behavior, by adding padding to the level text. | |
| * All options are listed in the [generated docs](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sirupsen/logrus#TextFormatter). | |
| * `logrus.JSONFormatter`. Logs fields as JSON. | |
| * All options are listed in the [generated docs](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sirupsen/logrus#JSONFormatter). | |
| Third-party logging formatters: | |
| * [`FluentdFormatter`](https://github.com/joonix/log). Formats entries that can be parsed by Kubernetes and Google Container Engine. | |
| * [`GELF`](https://github.com/fabienm/go-logrus-formatters). Formats entries so they comply to Graylog's [GELF 1.1 specification](http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.4/pages/gelf.html). | |
| * [`logstash`](https://github.com/bshuster-repo/logrus-logstash-hook). Logs fields as [Logstash](http://logstash.net) Events. | |
| * [`prefixed`](https://github.com/x-cray/logrus-prefixed-formatter). Displays log entry source along with alternative layout. | |
| * [`zalgo`](https://github.com/aybabtme/logzalgo). Invoking the Power of Zalgo. | |
| * [`nested-logrus-formatter`](https://github.com/antonfisher/nested-logrus-formatter). Converts logrus fields to a nested structure. | |
| * [`powerful-logrus-formatter`](https://github.com/zput/zxcTool). get fileName, log's line number and the latest function's name when print log; Save log to files. | |
| * [`caption-json-formatter`](https://github.com/nolleh/caption_json_formatter). logrus's message json formatter with human-readable caption added. | |
| You can define your formatter by implementing the `Formatter` interface, | |
| requiring a `Format` method. `Format` takes an `*Entry`. `entry.Data` is a | |
| `Fields` type (`map[string]interface{}`) with all your fields as well as the | |
| default ones (see Entries section above): | |
| ```go | |
| type MyJSONFormatter struct{} | |
| logrus.SetFormatter(new(MyJSONFormatter)) | |
| func (f *MyJSONFormatter) Format(entry *Entry) ([]byte, error) { | |
| // Note this doesn't include Time, Level and Message which are available on | |
| // the Entry. Consult `godoc` on information about those fields or read the | |
| // source of the official loggers. | |
| serialized, err := json.Marshal(entry.Data) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to marshal fields to JSON, %w", err) | |
| } | |
| return append(serialized, '\n'), nil | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### Logger as an `io.Writer` | |
| Logrus can be transformed into an `io.Writer`. That writer is the end of an `io.Pipe` and it is your responsibility to close it. | |
| ```go | |
| w := logger.Writer() | |
| defer w.Close() | |
| srv := http.Server{ | |
| // create a stdlib log.Logger that writes to | |
| // logrus.Logger. | |
| ErrorLog: log.New(w, "", 0), | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Each line written to that writer will be printed the usual way, using formatters | |
| and hooks. The level for those entries is `info`. | |
| This means that we can override the standard library logger easily: | |
| ```go | |
| logger := logrus.New() | |
| logger.Formatter = &logrus.JSONFormatter{} | |
| // Use logrus for standard log output | |
| // Note that `log` here references stdlib's log | |
| // Not logrus imported under the name `log`. | |
| log.SetOutput(logger.Writer()) | |
| ``` | |
| #### Rotation | |
| Log rotation is not provided with Logrus. Log rotation should be done by an | |
| external program (like `logrotate(8)`) that can compress and delete old log | |
| entries. It should not be a feature of the application-level logger. | |
| #### Tools | |
| | Tool | Description | | |
| | ---- | ----------- | | |
| |[Logrus Mate](https://github.com/gogap/logrus_mate)|Logrus mate is a tool for Logrus to manage loggers, you can initial logger's level, hook and formatter by config file, the logger will be generated with different configs in different environments.| | |
| |[Logrus Viper Helper](https://github.com/heirko/go-contrib/tree/master/logrusHelper)|An Helper around Logrus to wrap with spf13/Viper to load configuration with fangs! And to simplify Logrus configuration use some behavior of [Logrus Mate](https://github.com/gogap/logrus_mate). [sample](https://github.com/heirko/iris-contrib/blob/master/middleware/logrus-logger/example) | | |
| #### Testing | |
| Logrus has a built-in facility for asserting the presence of log messages. This is implemented through the `test` hook and provides: | |
| * decorators for existing logger (`test.NewLocal` and `test.NewGlobal`) which basically just adds the `test` hook | |
| * a test logger (`test.NewNullLogger`) that just records log messages (and does not output any): | |
| ```go | |
| import( | |
| "testing" | |
| "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" | |
| "github.com/sirupsen/logrus/hooks/test" | |
| "github.com/stretchr/testify/assert" | |
| ) | |
| func TestSomething(t*testing.T){ | |
| logger, hook := test.NewNullLogger() | |
| logger.Error("Helloerror") | |
| assert.Equal(t, 1, len(hook.Entries)) | |
| assert.Equal(t, logrus.ErrorLevel, hook.LastEntry().Level) | |
| assert.Equal(t, "Helloerror", hook.LastEntry().Message) | |
| hook.Reset() | |
| assert.Nil(t, hook.LastEntry()) | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| #### Fatal handlers | |
| Logrus can register one or more functions that will be called when any `fatal` | |
| level message is logged. The registered handlers will be executed before | |
| logrus performs an `os.Exit(1)`. This behavior may be helpful if callers need | |
| to gracefully shut down. Unlike a `panic("Something went wrong...")` call which can be intercepted with a deferred `recover` a call to `os.Exit(1)` can not be intercepted. | |
| ```go | |
| // ... | |
| handler := func() { | |
| // gracefully shut down something... | |
| } | |
| logrus.RegisterExitHandler(handler) | |
| // ... | |
| ``` | |
| #### Thread safety | |
| By default, Logger is protected by a mutex for concurrent writes. The mutex is held when calling hooks and writing logs. | |
| If you are sure such locking is not needed, you can call logger.SetNoLock() to disable the locking. | |
| Situations when locking is not needed include: | |
| * You have no hooks registered, or hooks calling is already thread-safe. | |
| * Writing to logger.Out is already thread-safe, for example: | |
| 1) logger.Out is protected by locks. | |
| 2) logger.Out is an os.File handler opened with `O_APPEND` flag, and every write is smaller than 4k. (This allows multi-thread/multi-process writing) | |
| (Refer to http://www.notthewizard.com/2014/06/17/are-files-appends-really-atomic/) |