logmachine 2.3.1

Collaborative, beautiful logging system for distributed developers

🧠 LogMachine

Collaborative, beautiful logging system for distributed developers

logmachine helps teams log smarter. It’s a fully pluggable logging system that supports colored output, JSON parsing, structured log forwarding via HTTP or Socket.IO, and log centralization — all from a standard Python logging interface.

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🚀 Features

• 🔥 Color-coded terminal logs (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, SUCCESS)
• 📤 Log forwarding to a central HTTP or Socket.IO server
• 🪵 Custom log levels (add your own with .new_level(...))
• 👥 User identity tracking for team-based logs
• 🧩 Pluggable backends: send logs to a central server or local files
• 📦 Simple JSON output for web dashboards or collectors
• 🧽 Strips ANSI escape codes from logs for clean parsing
• 🧠 Automatically resolves usernames and saves them in ~/.cl_username

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⚙️ Installation

pip install logmachine

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🧰 Usage

Basic Setup

from logmachine import LogMachine

# Create a simple logger without central logging
# Providing a non-empty string initializes the logger with that name, else the root logger is used to collect every single log in the python process.
logger = LogMachine("myapp", debug_level=1)

logger.info("Hello, world!")
logger.error("An error occurred!")
logger.success("Operation completed successfully!")
logger.debug("Debugging information here.")
logger.warning("This is a warning message.")

With Central Logging (HTTP or Socket.IO)

You can use the default logger with central logging pointing to "https://logmachine.bufferpunk.com"

from logmachine import default_logger
logger = default_logger()
logger.info("This log is sent to the LogMachine default central server!")

This is the default central logging server for logmachine, and you can create your own room there for free. To use your own central logging server, provide the configuration as shown below:

logger_config = {
    "url": "https://logmachine.bufferpunk.com",  # Base server URL
    "room": "team_alpha",                # Your organization or room
    "endpoint": "/api/logs",             # Optional, defaults to /api/logs. Use /api/socket.io/ for Socket.IO transport.
    "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer token"}, # The central server should know your username based on the token you provide here. This is optional and depends on your central server's authentication mechanism.
}
logger = LogMachine("with_central", debug_level=0, central=logger_config, socketio=True)
logger.success("Central logging is working!")

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🎨 Log Format

Every log includes:

• ✅ Username (resolved automatically or via server)
• 📁 Module directory
• ⏱️ Timestamp
• 📦 Level (INFO, ERROR, etc.)
• 📝 Message

Sample (terminal):

(username @ myapp) 🤌 CL Timing: [ 2025-08-04T11:23:52 ]
[ INFO ] Server started on port 8000
🏁

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🛠️ Advanced

Add Your Own Log Level

logger.new_level("CRITICAL_HACK", 60)
logger.new_level("CRITICAL_HACK", 60, color="\033[38;5;13m")  # Optional color... does your girlfriend love pink? Maybe you should be in a relationship with your terminal.
logger.critical_hack("Zero day found!")

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📤 Parse & Export

Convert Logs to JSON

This is useful for sending logs to web dashboards or log collectors that expect JSON. It reads the your log files, parses the log entries, and outputs them as JSON objects.

json_logs = log.jsonifier()
for entry in json_logs:
    print(entry)

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📡 Central Server Compatibility

To use Socket.IO, your central server must support this event:

• log: Receives log payloads: { room: string, data: object }

For central username resolution, your server should expose an endpoint like:

• GET /api/get_username?base=localname: Returns { "username": "..." }

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🤖 Environment Variables

• CL_USERNAME: Manually override detected username
• Automatically stored in ~/.cl_username for persistent identity

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🔐 Security

• HTTP headers (e.g. Authorization) can be injected
• Central log transmission is fully customizable

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🔧 Configuration Summary

Param	Type	Description
url	str	Central server base URL
room	str	Logical group or org name
endpoint	str	HTTP endpoint for POST logs (default: /api/logs or /api/socket.io/ for Socket.IO)
headers	dict	Extra headers to send (e.g. auth token)

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📄 License

MIT License

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🙋‍♂️ Author

Mugabo Gusenga logmachine.bufferpunk.com GitHub

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❤️ Contribute

PRs and issues are welcome! This tool is built for devs who want beautiful logs with distributed brains. Let’s make debugging fun again.