instruktai-python-logger 0.4.0

Centralized logging utilities for Python services.

InstruktAI Python Logger

Centralized logging utilities for Python services.

This repo provides a shared, consistent logging contract (env vars + output format + log location) intended to keep logs highly queryable (including by AIs that only read a tail window).

Background and rationale live in docs/design.md. Publishing notes live in docs/publishing.md.

Install (editable, local workspace)

From PyPI (recommended):

pip install instrukt-ai-logger

From GitHub:

pip install git+ssh://[e-mail]/InstruktAI/python-logger.git

API

• Python entrypoint: instrukt_ai_logging.configure_logging(...)
• Logger helper: instrukt_ai_logging.get_logger(name) (named **kv logging)
• CLI entrypoint: instrukt-ai-logs (reads recent log lines)

Example:

import logging
from instrukt_ai_logging import configure_logging

configure_logging("teleclaude")
logger = logging.getLogger("teleclaude.core")
logger.info("job_started", job_id="abc123", user_id=123)

Per-process log files (multi-producer apps)

When several processes belong to the same app (a daemon plus a watcher plus a cron, for example), each one can own its own file under the same app directory by passing source=:

configure_logging("teleclaude")                       # → teleclaude.log (default)
configure_logging("teleclaude", source="docs-watch")  # → docs-watch.log
configure_logging("teleclaude", source="cron")        # → cron.log

The .log extension is always appended; pass the bare stem. Files all live under /var/log/instrukt-ai/{app}/. The CLI merges them transparently (see below).

Environment variables (contract)

Per-app prefix model (example uses TELECLAUDE_):

• TELECLAUDE_LOG_LEVEL
• TELECLAUDE_THIRD_PARTY_LOG_LEVEL
• TELECLAUDE_THIRD_PARTY_LOGGERS (comma-separated logger prefixes to spotlight, e.g. httpcore,telegram)
• TELECLAUDE_MUTED_LOGGERS (comma-separated logger prefixes to force to WARNING+, e.g. teleclaude.cli.tui)

Global:

• INSTRUKT_AI_LOG_ROOT (optional log root override)

Log location (contract)

Default target:

• /var/log/instrukt-ai/{app}/{app}.log

The installer for each service is expected to create the directory and set write permissions for the daemon user. If the default location is not writable, the implementation will fall back to a user-writable directory and/or require INSTRUKT_AI_LOG_ROOT.

CLI

# Last 10 minutes (default), follows
instrukt-ai-logs teleclaude -f

# Last 2 hours
instrukt-ai-logs teleclaude --since 2h

# Filter with regex
instrukt-ai-logs teleclaude --since 10m --grep 'logger=teleclaude'

# Follow (tail -f style) after printing the --since window
instrukt-ai-logs teleclaude --since 10m --follow

# Restrict to specific source streams (per-process files)
instrukt-ai-logs teleclaude --since 1h --logs=cron,docs-watch

Without --logs, every *.log* file in the app directory is merged by timestamp (rotation suffixes included). With --logs=stem1,stem2, only files whose stem matches an entry are read — exact stem match, so --logs=cron picks cron.log, cron.log.0, cron.log.1 and never cron-backup.log. Follow mode reads each selected file with one polling thread per file.