Improve verbosity of logs

This is a Feature Proposal

Description

I found that existing logs that output with -v option, doesn’t give good overview of internal process.

To have better overview of that, I looked into serverless internals and added for my purpose logs that expose

• Commands that are about to be pursued with their hooks filled and unfilled with actions
• Hook start and end points with own duration it took
• All AWS requests with parameters, so I can see exactly how SLS works with AWS SDK

Here’s an example output:

I think it’ll be nice to have it in Serverless natively (at least I think there’s no way to introduce it via plugin), so they show either in verbose mode, or with SERVERLESS_DEBUG=true, or with some kind of namespace debugging (as can be achieved with debug).

I’ll be happy to propose a PR, with that, let me know what you think

Additional Data

• Serverless Framework Version you’re using: v1.19.0
• Operating System: macOS v10.12.6

[HyperBrain]

@medikoo I think so. AwsProvider#request is also a central interface method, that is used by core and 3rd party plugins. A change there would break everything.

Additionally to PluginManager#invoke I would also patch PluginManager#spawn and show a different message because spawn is used to invoke internal plugin lifecycles from plugins. It allows access to entrypoints which are not accessible from the CLI. It would be enough to show Spawned 'XXXXXX' in that case.

@horike37 @medikoo I think the core integration solution will introduce too much technical debt and complexity (we’re already talking about 2 env vars here).

[pmuens]

Thanks for creating @medikoo and thanks for commenting @horike37 and @HyperBrain 👍

I agree. Having this as an external would be super nice here (something like an extra debug plugin).

If we mostly agree that it should be in external plugin, please close, and I will post link to plugin here once it’s ready.

I’ll close this one, but please comment here again if you have any questions or need help. Furthermore feel free to comment once the plugin is done!

Thanks again for opening and kicking off the discussion @medikoo 👍

This issue might be related to https://github.com/serverless/serverless/pull/2821.