An extension to log through standard logging module
Augie Fackler
raf at durin42.com
Thu Jul 18 14:16:47 EDT 2019
> On Jul 16, 2019, at 13:27, Georges Racinet <georges.racinet at octobus.net> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> for the needs of Heptapod [1], I ended up writing a small extension to
> divert all possible console output to the standard logging module, with
> the option to send the logs to a Sentry application.
>
> The source is at https://dev.heptapod.net/heptapod/hgext-loggingmod and
> its README provides a fairly complete documentation.
>
> I think this extension would be useful in many more general server
> settings, and should therefore probably be versioned with hg-core. Some
> polishing would have to be made to bring it up to standard, and I'd be
> happy to do that if people are interested.
>
> A short rationale:
>
> - blackbox only registers to `ui.log`, which itself doesn't have much,
> unless `ui.debug` is True [2]. Also, it insists on outputting the logs
> into the `.hg` directory, and that's pretty much useless for a multi
> repo server
>
> - logtoprocess also registers to `ui.log`.
>
> - I wanted to make it easy to use Sentry, especially since GitLab has an
> option to send its logs to Sentry by default, unsurprisingly covering
> everything but Mercurial
>
> - I wanted to make it easily configurable, and to provide repository
> information to use in the format. Together with the PID, that makes it
> possible to extract only log lines pertaining to a given request.
>
> What do you think ?
I think it makes sense. Kyle, I think we might want this for some of our hg API servers too? Having it in core seems sensible to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] That is, our modified GitLab CE that supports Mercurial
>
> [2] with `ui.debug` set to True, some of that debugging info actually
> spills into the HTTP responses, making them incorrect.
>
>
> --
> Georges Racinet
> https://octobus.net
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>
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