Logjoy

Overview

Logjoy makes some changes to Rails default ActiveSupport::LogSubscribers in order to provide streamlined request logs for use in production.

The name is an homage to the lograge gem which is no longer maintained and which this gem is intended to replace.

See LOGRAGE_README for more information about the differences between this gem and lograge.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'logjoy'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Configuration

Logjoy can be configured with the following options:

enabled

config.logjoy.enabled = true

You will likely only want to enable Logjoy in production, e.g. config.logjoy.enabled = Rails.env.production?

customizer

You can provide a lambda:

config.logjoy.customizer = ->(event) { ... }

or a class that implements a .call method:

config.logjoy.customizer = CustomizerClass

The customizer will receive an ActiveSupport::Notification event for the process_action.action_controller event. It should return a hash that will be added to the log message.

More documentation about this event can be found here: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_instrumentation.html#process-action-action-controller

filters

config.logjoy.filters = ['/paths', '/to', '/ignore']

The filters configuration can be used to ignore requests with the given path to reduce log noise from things like health checks.

Example of full configuration

config/initializers/logjoy.rb

Rails.application.configure do |config|
  config.logjoy.enabled = true

  config.logjoy.customizer = CustomizerClass
  # or
  config.logjoy.customizer = ->(event) { ... }

  config.logjoy.filters = ['/health_check']
end

Log Format

Log messages are JSON formatted.

{
  "controller": "PagesController",
  "action": "index",
  "format": "html",
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/",
  "status": 200,
  "view_runtime": 123.456,
  "db_runtime": 123.456,
  "duration": 1234.567,
  "params": {},
  "request_id": "95cb397a-df23-4548-b641-ae8eef9d3a4e",
  "event": "process_action.action_controller",
  "allocations": 123456
}

If you are using Logger::Formatter to format your logs the output should look something like:

I, [timestamp] INFO -- : [request_id] {"controller":"PagesController", ...}

If you define your own formatter keep in mind that msg is already JSON formatted in the #call method that you will define:

class MyFormatter < Logger::Formatter
  def call(severity, time, progname, msg)
    # msg is a JSON string
  end
end

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/DogParkLabs/logjoy. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.