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A package used to perform DataDog and system logs

Releases

• 3.0.0 - Patch Notes
• 2.1.0 - Patch Notes
• 2.0.2 - Patch Notes
• 2.0.1 - Patch Notes
• 2.0.0 - Patch Notes
• 1.0.0

Installation and Setup

1. Run composer require mvf-tech/system_logger to install the package
2. You will also have to set DATADOG_PROJECT_NAME and DATADOG_SERVICE_NAME ENV variables

Basic Use

use MVF\SystemLogger\Reporters\Remotes\DataDog\DataDog;
use MVF\SystemLogger\Reporters\Host\CommandLine;
use MVF\SystemLogger\SystemLogger;

$logger = new SystemLogger();
$logger->info(
    ["some_kind_of_tag", "key" => "another_tag"],
    "message",
    new CommandLine(),
    DataDog::histogram("metric_name_suffix", 2)
);

There are two type of reporters available, host reporters, CommandLine in the above example, and remote reporters, DataDog.histogram(...) in the above example. host reporters are used to log messages, these reporters do not receive the list of tags and therefore are not able to do anything with it. remote reporters are used to make more complex logs, they receive only the list of tags, the message is appended to the tag list as "message" => "the message". You can create your own reporters by implementing HostLogInterface or RemoteLogInterface more about this later.

SystemLogger

include:

• use MVF\SystemLogger\SystemLogger;

methods:

• ->info(array $tags, string $message, (HostLogInterface|RemoteLogInterface) ...$loggers)

• ->warning(array $tags, string $message, (HostLogInterface|RemoteLogInterface) ...$loggers)

• ->error(array $tags, string $message, (HostLogInterface|RemoteLogInterface) ...$loggers)

The system logger is used as a central storage unit, it does not perform any logging by itself instead it is responsible for message processing and reduction of code duplication since the same tags and message are passed to all of the provided reporters.

Default Tags

The following are the default tags that will be appended to the provided list.

• info, warning or error one of these will be appended based on which system logger function was called.

Message Placeholders

There are two kinds of message placeholders tag and reporter.

$logger->info(
    [
        "name" => "Bob"                     // tag key name
    ], 
    "There are :1 messages from :name",
    new CommandLine(),                      // reporter index 0
    DataDog::histogram("messages", 2),      // reporter index 1
    ...                                     // reporter index ...
);

tag placeholder is identified with a : followed by the key of one of your tags, in the above example :name is a valid tag. reporter placeholder is identified by : followed by the index of one of your reporters so in the above example :1 would be replaced with the value of DataDog.histogram("messages", 2) which in this case would be 2.

#####Notes

• :0 would not be replaced since CommandLine implements HostLogInterface and host reporters do not have any return value.

Default Reporters

These are responsible for the actual logging of information. At the moment there are two default reporters built in CommandLine and DataDog.

CommandLine

This is a basic reporter that will simply echo messages to the standard out.

DataDog

include:

• use MVF\SystemLogger\Reporters\Remotes\DataDog\DataDog;

methods:

• ::gauge(string $suffix, int $value): Gauge
• ::histogram(string $suffix, int $value, float $sample_rate = 1.0): Histogram
• ::time(string $suffix, (float|callable) $time): Time
• ::unique(string $suffix, int $value): Unique

suffix is the last part of your DataDog metric name. All DataDog metric names will consist of DATADOG_PROJECT_NAME.suffix where DATADOG_PROJECT_NAME is loaded from ENV, if these variables are not set then the beginning of your metric will default to notset.suffix. In Addition all DataDog logs will be sent with additional tag DATADOG_SERVICE_NAME which is also loaded from ENV, if this variable is not set then it will default to value notset.

Custom Reporters

You can create your own host or remote reporters by creating a class and implementing HostLogInterface or RemoteLogInterface respectively.

HostLogInterface

include:

• use MVF\SystemLogger\HostLogInterface;

methods:

• ->info(string $message): \Exception|null : should make a log with info severity.

• ->warning(string $message): \Exception|null : should make a log with warning severity.

• ->error(string $message): \Exception|null : should make a log with error severity.

Each method receives the message with replaced placeholders. If an exception is thrown in the reporter then it should be caught and returned, the system logger will re-throw it once all other logs are performed. An example of laravel standard out reporter can be found here.

RemoteLogInterface

include:

• use MVF\SystemLogger\RemoteLogInterface;

methods:

• ->send(string[] $tags): \Exception|null : tags array will always have at least these values [ "<info|warning|error>", "message" => "<message>", <DATADOG_SERVICE_NAME> ]. If an exception is thrown in the reporter then it should be caught and returned, the system logger will re-throw it once all other logs are performed.

• ->getValue(): string|int : if your remote reporter has a value that may be returned then this function should return it, otherwise return string NOT_IMPLEMENTED.