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opentelemetry formatter for python logging module.

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logging-opentelemetry-format

a simple logging formatter which can be used to format logs to opentelemetry specification coming out from a system. it also provides some additional size control over log body and log attributes

Installation

  • from pypi
pip install logging_opentelemetry_format

Usage

  • check example for a complete example
  • the formatter is available as
from logging_opentelemetry_format.utils import OpentelemetryLogFormatter
  • on a basic level this formatter can be added to a logging handler
  • it takes following optional keyword arguments
  • use_traces: use the traces information to enrich logs or not(trace_id and span_id)
  • restrict_attributes_to: list of attributes to which log's attributes should be restricted, any extra attributes passed inside extra keywords in logs will be added against _meta inside attributes.
  • meta_character_limit: the max length of value for _meta in output logs' attributes, if the length of log's meta exceeds this limit the value of log's meta will be trimmed to specified length. also an attribute _meta_original_length is added with value as the length of original log meta and _meta_too_large with value true for debugging purpose.
  • body_character_limit: the max length of value for log body, if the length of log body exceeds this limit the value of log body will be trimmed to specified value. also an attribute _body_original_length is added with value as the length of original log body and _body_too_large with value true for debugging purpose.
  • discard_attributes_from: an array of attributes which needs to be skipped when exporting logs

Local development and testing

  • build the docker-image of the package docker-compose build --no-cache
  • run the image docker-compose up
  • go to the container docker exec -it loggingoplttester sh
  • to run tests pytest tests/ to run the actual tests.

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