Logging

Concept

gallia uses structured structured logging implemented as line separated JSON records. Each scanner creates a artifacts_dir under artifacts_base, which contains a zstd compressed logfile log.json.zst. The logfile is created with loglevel DEBUG; for debugging purposes loglevel TRACE can be enabled with the setting trace_log. Logfiles can be displayed with the hr tool which is included in gallia.

The generic interface which represents a logrecord is gallia.log.PenlogRecord. The generic interface which is used to read a logfile gallia.log.PenlogReader.

API

gallia uses the logging module. The loglevels TRACE and NOTICE have been added to the module.

In own scripts gallia.log.setup_logging() needs to be called as early as possible. For creating a gallia.log.Logger, there is gallia.log.get_logger().

from gallia.log import get_logger, setup_logging, Loglevel

# The logfile's loglevel is Loglevel.DEBUG.
# It can be set with the keyword argument file_level.
setup_logging(level=Loglevel.INFO)
logger = get_logger("test")
logger.info("hello world")
logger.debug("hello debug")

If processing of a logfile is needed, here is a minimal example; for custom functionality see gallia.log.PenlogReader and gallia.log.PenlogReader.records().

from gallia.log import PenlogReader

reader = PenlogReader("/path/to/logfile")
for record in reader.records()
    print(record)