Tracing::Logger

A simple implementation of Ruby's logger Tracer::Logger with support for OpenTracing Tracer as a destination. The gem includes additional Tracing::CompositeLogger thanks to which you can specify multiple destination loggers, each with different level and formatter.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tracing-logger'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tracing-logger

To initialize a new instance of Tracing::Logger you need to specify at least an active span provider - a proc which returns a current active span. The gem plays nicely with spanmanager. After that use it as a usual Ruby logger.

require 'spanmanager'
require 'tracing-logger'

OpenTracing.global_tracer = SpanManager::Tracer.new(OpenTracing.global_tracer)
logger = Tracing::Logger.new(active_span: -> { OpenTracing.global_tracer.active_span }, level: Logger::ERROR)
logger.error("description of some exceptional event")

The gem comes with Tracing::CompositeLogger. It allows to specify multiple destination loggers, each with different level and formatter. Might be very useful in cases where you want to write all the logs to a file, and only those exceptional to a tracer.

tracing_logger = Tracing::Logger.new(active_span: -> { OpenTracing.global_tracer.active_span }, level: Logger::ERROR)
file_logger = Logger.new('log.txt')
composite_logger = Tracing::CompositeLogger.new(tracing_logger, file_logger)
composite_logger.error("description of some exceptional event") # => both destinations, tracing and file loggers, will be callled

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/iaintshine/ruby-tracing-logger. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.