Rucksack

A collection of logging/instrumenting tools for building Go apps

Basics

Package aims to simplify logging and instrumenting, so:

• package exposes functions, that work with default logger/instrumenter (which is usually not exposed)
• package is configured with ENV vars, like LOG_TAGS=app:program go run program.go

Recommended way to use:

• import and use "github.com/bsm/rucksack/log" or "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met" in non-main packages
• import extension packages like _ "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met/datadog" only in main package

Logging

import "github.com/bsm/rucksack/log"

ENV:

• LOG_NAME=projectname (aliased as APP_NAME)
• LOG_TAGS=foo:bar,baz:qux (aliased as APP_TAGS)
• LOG_LEVEL=INFO
• LOG_STACK=true (any non-empty value will enable stack logging; this is an expensive option)

Recommended way to use:

package main

import "github.com/bsm/rucksack/log"

func main() {
  defer log.Sync()
  defer log.ErrorOnPanic()

  // do stuff
}

Metrics

import (
  "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met"
  _ "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met/datadog"
  _ "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met/runtime"
)

ENV:

• MET_NAME=projectname (required; aliased as APP_NAME)
• MET_TAGS=foo:bar,baz:qux (aliased as APP_TAGS)

With _ "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met/datadog" imported:

• MET_DATADOG=datadog-token (required)
• MET_DATADOG_DISABLE_COMPRESSION=true (optional, disables compression when sending data to DataDog API)

With _ "github.com/bsm/rucksack/met/runtime" imported:

• MET_RUNTIME=mem,heap,gc (used set is equivalent to all)

Optional ENV:

• HOST=hostname (auto-detected)
• PORT=8080 (optional)