saleyn
When defining a custom formatter for the Elixir Logger, is there a way for a structured report to be passed to it as a map or a Keyword list instead of being formatted as the iolist?
I.e. for a call Logger.info(%{test: "report"}), I’d like it to be accessible in the formatter in the structured form:
config.ex:
config: :logger, :console,
format: {MyFormatter, :format}
formatter.ex:
defmodule MyFormatter do
def format(level, msg, {date, time}, meta) do
%% The `msg` here is an iolist instead of being passed as a map or Keyword.t
end
end
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LostKobrakai
Structured data is only available to erlang
:loggerhandlers, not elixirLoggerbackends.tj0
There’s an entire thread worth of information in there on structured logging. I’ve since updated the module to handle 404’s and exceptions a bit better and been using it in production for a long time now. If interested, I can publish the updated solution somewhere.
PaintingWithCode
Hi, could you publish the updated solution?
Have been trying to output structured logs in a similar format to zerolog for human friendly dev, and logfmt for prod. Have been able to do a somewhat decent job via wrangling with custom formatters + Logster, but doesn’t quite work with LiveView.
tj0