A curated list of delightful insights and packages and resources around logging!

Following a list of good logging libraries for certain programming languages.

Explain here why its good to log. Some points:

• Understand code on run time
• Understand state during run time
• Color coding
• Reducing the need to breakpoints
• Informal reasoning
• Helpfulness in production systems (e.g. in the context of load balancing)

Some log level which can be helpful to start with logging (inspired by winston for node).

• silly (e.g. magenta)
• input (e.g. grey)
• verbose (e.g. cyan)
• prompt (e.g. grey)
• debug (e.g. blue)
• info (e.g. green)
• data (e.g. grey)
• help (e.g. cyan)
• warn (e.g. yellow)
• error (e.g. red)

• Graylog2
• Loggly

Bragi

• Pros:
  • User defined namespaces (logging groups)
  • Include and Exclude log groups
  • Colored log messages
  • Symbols
  • Support for transports

NSLogger

• Pros:
  • External Mac app with color coding and log filtering

• Galgo Interesting idea to display logs on the device in case you are not connected to the dev machine!

Console

• Pros:
  • Good to find problems happening during the

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