Log to stdout or stderr

[moltar]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'd like to be able to log to STDOUT or STDERR.

Describe the solution you'd like

Rather than logging to a file, I'd like to be able to log to the console.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Looked into Monolog docs to see if it was possible, but did not find any solutions.

Additional context

I am using Docker and it's better to log to the screen, as that is then automatically ingested into CloudWatch logs.

[yurikuzn]

It should be already possible.

https://docs.espocrm.com/administration/log/#handlers

https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog/blob/3.5.0/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php

  'logger' => [
    'level' => 'NOTICE',
    'handlerList' => [
      [
        'className' => 'Monolog\\Handler\\StreamHandler',
        'params' => [
          'stream' =>  'php://stdout',
        ],
        'level' => 'NOTICE',
      ],
  ],

[moltar]

Thank you for the config sample.

But it's not possible to edit this config in a programmatic Docker based deployment way.

As the config is being touched by espocrm and written to.

And there's no way to supply your own as when config exists Docker image entry point will skip the installation.

I wish there was a way to provide a real config file that is the source of truth and EspoCRM shouldn't be writing to that.

[yurikuzn]

I don't understand the problem. Log is configured through config, like many other things. It's possible to edit this file programmatically somehow. Anyway, it would be out of scope of the initial feature request.

[yurikuzn]

https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm-docker/blob/8.0.5/apache/docker-entrypoint.sh#L59

This functions does not look good to me, as it accepts only strings. You may write your own based on its code I think.

You can also create your own config file before Espo is installed, with needed params. Other params will be added upon installation. Not sure how it works on our docker though.

Docker image entry point will skip the installation

If there's really such a problem and it can't be circumvented, we need to solve it. But I think it checks 'isInstalled' parameter in the config. If it's not true, it will install.

[arkadiyasuratov]

It would be nice if we could have config drop-ins in data/config.d, allowing us to place our own config files, similar to how many programs operate in Linux. This folder can be read-only. This is something I wish Espo had when I was deploying the app to S3, as there was no option to enforce it with environment variables.

[yurikuzn]

It's out of scope of this feature request. If directory, then the question, how to merge multiple files. What priority. Why directory, not a single file what would be more straightforward.

[yurikuzn]

I created a separate issue: #2916