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README.md
Zero Allocation JSON Logger
The zerolog package provides a fast and simple logger dedicated to JSON output.
Zerolog's API is designed to provide both a great developer experience and stunning performance. Its unique chaining API allows zerolog to write JSON log events by avoiding allocations and reflection.
The uber's zap library pioneered this approach. Zerolog is taking this concept to the next level with simpler to use API and even better performance.
To keep the code base and the API simple, zerolog focuses on JSON logging only. As suggested on reddit, you may use tools like humanlog to pretty print JSON on the console during development.
Features
- Level logging
- Sampling
- Contextual fields
context.Context
integrationnet/http
helpers
Usage
import "github.com/rs/zerolog/log"
A global logger can be use for simple logging
log.Info().Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"message":"hello world"}
NOTE: To import the global logger, import the log
subpackage github.com/rs/zerolog/log
.
log.Fatal().
Err(err).
Str("service", service).
Msgf("Cannot start %s", service)
// Output: {"level":"fatal","time":1494567715,"message":"Cannot start myservice","error":"some error","service":"myservice"}
// Exit 1
NOTE: Using Msgf
generates one allocation even when the logger is disabled.
Fields can be added to log messages
log.Info().
Str("foo", "bar").
Int("n", 123).
Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"foo":"bar","n":123,"message":"hello world"}
Create logger instance to manage different outputs
logger := zerolog.New(os.Stderr).With().Timestamp().Logger()
logger.Info().Str("foo", "bar").Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"message":"hello world","foo":"bar"}
Sub-loggers let you chain loggers with additional context
sublogger := log.With().
Str("component": "foo").
Logger()
sublogger.Info().Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"message":"hello world","component":"foo"}
Level logging
zerolog.SetGlobalLevel(zerolog.InfoLevel)
log.Debug().Msg("filtered out message")
log.Info().Msg("routed message")
if e := log.Debug(); e.Enabled() {
// Compute log output only if enabled.
value := compute()
e.Str("foo": value).Msg("some debug message")
}
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"message":"routed message"}
Sub dictionary
log.Info().
Str("foo", "bar").
Dict("dict", zerolog.Dict().
Str("bar", "baz").
Int("n", 1)
).Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":1494567715,"foo":"bar","dict":{"bar":"baz","n":1},"message":"hello world"}
Customize automatic field names
zerolog.TimestampFieldName = "t"
zerolog.LevelFieldName = "l"
zerolog.MessageFieldName = "m"
log.Info().Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"l":"info","t":1494567715,"m":"hello world"}
Log with no level nor message
log.Log().Str("foo","bar").Msg("")
// Output: {"time":1494567715,"foo":"bar"}
Add contextual fields to the global logger
log.Logger = log.With().Str("foo", "bar").Logger()
Log Sampling
sampled := log.Sample(10)
sampled.Info().Msg("will be logged every 10 messages")
// Output: {"time":1494567715,"sample":10,"message":"will be logged every 10 messages"}
Pass a sub-logger by context
ctx := log.With("component", "module").Logger().WithContext(ctx)
log.Ctx(ctx).Info().Msg("hello world")
// Output: {"component":"module","level":"info","message":"hello world"}
Set as standard logger output
log := zerolog.New(os.Stdout).With().
Str("foo", "bar").
Logger()
stdlog.SetFlags(0)
stdlog.SetOutput(log)
stdlog.Print("hello world")
// Output: {"foo":"bar","message":"hello world"}
Integration with net/http
The github.com/rs/zerolog/hlog
package provides some helpers to integrate zerolog with http.Handler
.
In this example we use alice to install logger for better readability.
log := zerolog.New(os.Stdout).With().
Timestamp().
Str("role", "my-service").
Str("host", host).
Logger()
c := alice.New()
// Install the logger handler with default output on the console
c = c.Append(hlog.NewHandler(log))
// Install some provided extra handler to set some request's context fields.
// Thanks to those handler, all our logs will come with some pre-populated fields.
c = c.Append(hlog.RemoteAddrHandler("ip"))
c = c.Append(hlog.UserAgentHandler("user_agent"))
c = c.Append(hlog.RefererHandler("referer"))
c = c.Append(hlog.RequestIDHandler("req_id", "Request-Id"))
// Here is your final handler
h := c.Then(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// Get the logger from the request's context. You can safely assume it
// will be always there: if the handler is removed, hlog.FromRequest
// will return a no-op logger.
hlog.FromRequest(r).Info().
Str("user", "current user").
Str("status", "ok").
Msg("Something happened")
// Output: {"level":"info","time":"2001-02-03T04:05:06Z","role":"my-service","host":"local-hostname","req_id":"b4g0l5t6tfid6dtrapu0","user":"current user","status":"ok","message":"Something happened"}
}))
http.Handle("/", h)
if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil); err != nil {
log.Fatal().Err(err).Msg("Startup failed")
}
Global Settings
Some settings can be changed and will by applied to all loggers:
log.Logger
: You can set this value to customize the global logger (the one used by package level methods).zerolog.SetGlobalLevel
: Can raise the minimum level of all loggers. Set this tozerolog.Disable
to disable logging altogether (quiet mode).zerolog.DisableSampling
: If argument istrue
, all sampled loggers will stop sampling and issue 100% of their log events.zerolog.TimestampFieldName
: Can be set to customizeTimestamp
field name.zerolog.LevelFieldName
: Can be set to customize level field name.zerolog.MessageFieldName
: Can be set to customize message field name.zerolog.ErrorFieldName
: Can be set to customizeErr
field name.zerolog.SampleFieldName
: Can be set to customize the field name added when sampling is enabled.zerolog.TimeFieldFormat
: Can be set to customizeTime
field value formatting. If set with an empty string, times are formated as UNIX timestamp. // DurationFieldUnit defines the unit for time.Duration type fields added // using the Dur method.DurationFieldUnit
: Sets the unit of the fields added byDur
(default:time.Millisecond
).DurationFieldInteger
: If set to true,Dur
fields are formatted as integers instead of floats.
Field Types
Standard Types
Str
Bool
Int
,Int8
,Int16
,Int32
,Int64
Uint
,Uint8
,Uint16
,Uint32
,Uint64
Float32
,Float64
Advanced Fields
Err
: Takes anerror
and render it as a string using thezerolog.ErrorFieldName
field name.Timestamp
: Insert a timestamp field withzerolog.TimestampFieldName
field name and formatted usingzerolog.TimeFieldFormat
.Time
: Adds a field with the time formated with thezerolog.TimeFieldFormat
.Dur
: Adds a field with atime.Duration
.Dict
: Adds a sub-key/value as a field of the event.Interface
: Uses reflection to marshal the type.
Performance
All operations are allocation free (those numbers include JSON encoding):
BenchmarkLogEmpty-8 100000000 19.1 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkDisabled-8 500000000 4.07 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkInfo-8 30000000 46.3 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkContextFields-8 30000000 47.1 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkLogFields-8 10000000 186 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
Using Uber's zap comparison benchmark:
Log a message and 10 fields:
Library | Time | Bytes Allocated | Objects Allocated |
---|---|---|---|
zerolog | 767 ns/op | 552 B/op | 6 allocs/op |
⚡ zap | 848 ns/op | 704 B/op | 2 allocs/op |
⚡ zap (sugared) | 1363 ns/op | 1610 B/op | 20 allocs/op |
go-kit | 3614 ns/op | 2895 B/op | 66 allocs/op |
lion | 5392 ns/op | 5807 B/op | 63 allocs/op |
logrus | 5661 ns/op | 6092 B/op | 78 allocs/op |
apex/log | 15332 ns/op | 3832 B/op | 65 allocs/op |
log15 | 20657 ns/op | 5632 B/op | 93 allocs/op |
Log a message with a logger that already has 10 fields of context:
Library | Time | Bytes Allocated | Objects Allocated |
---|---|---|---|
zerolog | 52 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
⚡ zap | 283 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
⚡ zap (sugared) | 337 ns/op | 80 B/op | 2 allocs/op |
lion | 2702 ns/op | 4074 B/op | 38 allocs/op |
go-kit | 3378 ns/op | 3046 B/op | 52 allocs/op |
logrus | 4309 ns/op | 4564 B/op | 63 allocs/op |
apex/log | 13456 ns/op | 2898 B/op | 51 allocs/op |
log15 | 14179 ns/op | 2642 B/op | 44 allocs/op |
Log a static string, without any context or printf
-style templating:
Library | Time | Bytes Allocated | Objects Allocated |
---|---|---|---|
zerolog | 50 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
⚡ zap | 236 ns/op | 0 B/op | 0 allocs/op |
standard library | 453 ns/op | 80 B/op | 2 allocs/op |
⚡ zap (sugared) | 337 ns/op | 80 B/op | 2 allocs/op |
go-kit | 508 ns/op | 656 B/op | 13 allocs/op |
lion | 771 ns/op | 1224 B/op | 10 allocs/op |
logrus | 1244 ns/op | 1505 B/op | 27 allocs/op |
apex/log | 2751 ns/op | 584 B/op | 11 allocs/op |
log15 | 5181 ns/op | 1592 B/op | 26 allocs/op |