JSON logging

Is it possible to get JSON output in the logs? For example, the following log line:

2019-01-10 12:15:07 root:DEBUG thumbor running at 0.0.0.0:8001

… would be awesome to be able to have as:

{
  "timestamp": "2019-01-10 12:15:07",
  "name": "root",
  "level": "DEBUG",
  "message": "thumbor running at 0.0.0.0:8001"
}

I guess I could just tweak the format, but I’d need to escape the message, in case the message would have qoutes in it. Ideas?

[heynemann]

Would be good to have structured logging in thumbor, but I think the best way to go about this is to use thumbor’s own mechanisms for extensibility and allow people to implement their own loggers.

What do I mean by that?

We could change all logging in thumbor to be something like:

logger.debug('Something happened.', image_url=image_url)

Then we’d implement the StdoutLogger that just prints these as:

2019-01-10 12:15:07 Something happened (image_url='/something.jpg')

As well as the JSONLogger, that prints:

{
  "timestamp": "2019-01-10 12:15:07",
  "level": "DEBUG",
  "message": "Something happened",
  "image_url": "/something.jpg"
}

What do you guys think?

[mbarouski]

@heynemann are there any updates for JSON logging planned?