log-config-watcher 0.3.1

Watches your logging configuration file for change and applies them without requiring an application restart

Log Config Watcher

This library makes it easy to load a JSON formatted Python Logging configuration file and monitor the file for changes. If the configuration has changed, and is valid, it will automatically be applied and the changes will be reflect in your logging without restarting.

Getting Started

from log_config_watcher import LogConfigWatcher

log_watcher = LogConfigWatcher("config.json")
log_Watcher.start()

Options

The LogConfigWatcher class using the Python logging system to setup a basicConfig before attempting to load the config file. This way if there are any errors during the loading of the file they will be reported somewhere. You can customize the defaults using the following settings passed to the constructor.

• default_level: int - A Python logging logging level, such as, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, or ERROR
• default_format: str - A Python logging format string
• default_handler: logging.Handler - A Python logging Handler type, such as, StreamHandler, FileHandler, etc, etc
• logger_name: str - defaults to LogWatcher when calling getLogger. Setting this allows you to use a custom logger

Development

This project uses Poetry as its project manager. The goal of this library is to have no external runtime dependencies. However, for development, the following are used:

• pytest - For running tests
• pre-commit - Pre-commit hooks to check formatting and lots of other things
  • PR will automatically run these check and fail if they don't pass