tracing-appender

tracing-appender

Writers for logging events and spans

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Overview

tracing is a framework for instrumenting Rust programs to collect structured, event-based diagnostic information. tracing-appender allows events and spans to be recorded in a non-blocking manner through a dedicated logging thread. It also provides a RollingFileAppender that can be used with or without the non-blocking writer.

Usage

Add the following to your Cargo.toml:

tracing-appender = "0.1"

This crate can be used in a few ways to record spans/events:

• Using a RollingFileAppender to write to a log file. This is a blocking operation.
• Using any type implementing std::io::Write in a non-blocking fashion.
• Using NonBlocking and RollingFileAppender together to write to write to log files in a non-blocking fashion.

Rolling File Appender

fn main(){
    let file_appender = tracing_appender::rolling::hourly("/some/directory", "prefix.log");
}

This creates an hourly rotating file appender that writes to /some/directory/prefix.log.YYYY-MM-DD-HH. [Rotation::DAILY] and [Rotation::NEVER] are the other available options.

The file appender implements std::io::Write. To be used with tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber, it must be combined with a MakeWriter implementation to be able to record tracing spans/event.

The rolling module's documentation provides more detail on how to use this file appender.

Non-Blocking Writer

The example below demonstrates the construction of a non_blocking writer with an implementation of std::io::Writer.

use std::io::Error;

struct TestWriter;

impl std::io::Write for TestWriter {
    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
        let buf_len = buf.len();
    
        println!("{:?}", buf);
        Ok(buf_len)
    }

    fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
        Ok(())
    }
}

fn main() {
    let (non_blocking, _guard) = tracing_appender::non_blocking(TestWriter);
    tracing_subscriber::fmt().with_writer(non_blocking).init();
}

Note: _guard is a WorkerGuard which is returned by tracing_appender::non_blocking to ensure buffered logs are flushed to their output in the case of abrupt terminations of a process. See WorkerGuard module for more details.

The example below demonstrates the construction of a tracing_appender::non_blocking writer constructed with a std::io::Write:

fn main() {
    let (non_blocking, _guard) = tracing_appender::non_blocking(std::io::Stdout);
    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
        .with_writer(non_blocking)
        .init();
}

The non_blocking module's documentation provides more detail on how to use non_blocking.

Non-Blocking Rolling File Appender

fn main() {
    let file_appender = tracing_appender::rolling::hourly("/some/directory", "prefix.log");
    let (non_blocking, _guard) = tracing_appender::non_blocking(file_appender);
   tracing_subscriber::fmt()
       .with_writer(non_blocking)
       .init();
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

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