PierLogging

A gem developed by PIER to standardize our logs (request and general-purpose)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pier_logging'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pier_logging

Usage

• Create an initializer at config/initializers/pier_logging.rb to configure the gem.
• Configure General-purpose logging, Request logging and register the request logger rails middleware.
• Configure your logger on config/application.rb to use PierLogging::Logger

General-purpose logging

Use PierLogging.configure_logger block to configure general-purpose logs. Accepted configs are:

config	Required	Type	Default
app_name	true	string	nil
env	true	string	nil
formatter	false	Ougai::Formatters::Base	PierLogging::Formatter::Json.new

Request logging

Use PierLogging.configure_request_logger block to configure request logs. Accepted configs are:

config	Required	Type	Default
enabled	false	boolean	false
user_info_getter	true	block (headers)	nil

The block passed to user_info_getter receives the headers of the request so you can use your headers to define the username or role.

You have at your disposal the following helper methods:

• has_basic_credentials(headers): checks if there are basic auth credentials in the header
• get_basic_credentials_user(headers): get the user from the basic auth credential

Example

# config/initializers/pier_logging.rb

PierLogging.configure_logger do |config|
  config.app_name = Rails.application.class.module_parent_name.underscore.dasherize
  config.env = Rails.env
  config.formatter = Rails.env.production? ? PierLogging::Formatter::Json.new : 
    PierLogging::Formatter::Readable.new
end 

PierLogging.configure_request_logger do |config|
  config.user_info_getter do |headers|
    if headers['MY-USER-HEADER'].present?
      { username: headers['MY-USER-HEADER']  }
    elsif has_basic_credentials?(headers)
      { username: get_basic_credentials_user(headers) }
    else
      { username: 'anonymous' }
    end
  end
  config.enabled = ENV.fetch('REQUEST_LOG_ENABLED', 'true') == 'true'
end

Rails.application.config.middleware.use PierLogging::RequestLogger, PierLogging::Logger.new(STDOUT)

# config/application.rb

# ...
config.logger = PierLogging::Logger.new(STDOUT)
# ...

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/pier-digital/pier_logging.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.