Seelog

Seelog is a powerful and easy-to-learn logging framework that provides functionality for flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting log messages. It is natively written in the Go programming language.

Features

• Xml configuring to be able to change logger parameters without recompilation
• Changing configurations on the fly without app restart
• Possibility to set different log configurations for different project files and functions
• Adjustable message formatting
• Simultaneous log output to multiple streams
• Choosing logger priority strategy to minimize performance hit
• Different output writers
  • Console writer
  • File writer
  • Buffered writer (Chunk writer)
  • Rolling log writer (Logging with rotation)
  • SMTP writer
  • Others... (See Wiki)
• Log message wrappers (JSON, XML, etc.)
• Global variables and functions for easy usage in standalone apps
• Functions for flexible usage in libraries

Quick-start

package main

import log "github.com/cihub/seelog"

func main() {
    defer log.Flush()
    log.Info("Hello from Seelog!")
}

Installation

If you don't have the Go development environment installed, visit the Getting Started document and follow the instructions. Once you're ready, execute the following command:

go get -u github.com/cihub/seelog

IMPORTANT: If you are not using the latest release version of Go, check out this wiki page

Documentation

Seelog has github wiki pages, which contain detailed how-tos references: https://github.com/cihub/seelog/wiki

Examples

Seelog examples can be found here: seelog-examples

Issues

Feel free to push issues that could make Seelog better: https://github.com/cihub/seelog/issues

Changelog

• v2.5 : Interaction with other systems. Part 2: custom receivers
  • Finished custom receivers feature. Check wiki
  • Added 'LoggerFromCustomReceiver'
  • Added 'LoggerFromWriterWithMinLevelAndFormat'
  • Added 'LoggerFromCustomReceiver'
  • Added 'LoggerFromParamConfigAs...'
• v2.4 : Interaction with other systems. Part 1: wrapping seelog
  • Added configurable caller stack skip logic
  • Added 'SetAdditionalStackDepth' to 'LoggerInterface'
• v2.3 : Rethinking 'rolling' receiver
  • Reimplemented 'rolling' receiver
  • Added 'Max rolls' feature for 'rolling' receiver with type='date'
  • Fixed 'rolling' receiver issue: renaming on Windows
• v2.2 : go1.0 compatibility point [go1.0 tag]
  • Fixed internal bugs
  • Added 'ANSI n [;k]' format identifier: %EscN
  • Made current release go1 compatible
• v2.1 : Some new features
  • Rolling receiver archiving option.
  • Added format identifier: %Line
  • Smtp: added paths to PEM files directories
  • Added format identifier: %FuncShort
  • Warn, Error and Critical methods now return an error
• v2.0 : Second major release. BREAKING CHANGES.
  • Support of binaries with stripped symbols
  • Added log strategy: adaptive
  • Critical message now forces Flush()
  • Added predefined formats: xml-debug, xml-debug-short, xml, xml-short, json-debug, json-debug-short, json, json-short, debug, debug-short, fast
  • Added receiver: conn (network connection writer)
  • BREAKING CHANGE: added Tracef, Debugf, Infof, etc. to satisfy the print/printf principle
  • Bug fixes
• v1.0 : Initial release. Features:
  • Xml config
  • Changing configurations on the fly without app restart
  • Contraints and exceptions
  • Formatting
  • Log strategies: sync, async loop, async timer
  • Receivers: buffered, console, file, rolling, smtp