Support for colorized logs

[matuscongrady]

Hi,

Our use case:
We print colorized logs to the terminal (from a node.js application).
These logs use special ANSI escape characters to add color to the terminal. For example \u001B

Unfortunately, sentry does not recognize these characters and our logs look are hard to read because of that.

It would be nice if you could convert these characters into actual colors, or remove them completely from the string.

It would make our debugging experience way more enjoyable.

Thank you!

[mitsuhiko]

@untitaker wonder if we would want to discard this on normalization or deal with it in the UI.

[untitaker]

It would be sick to render those colors in the UI ;)

[untitaker]

So to be clear I don't think much of normalizing them away. If we don't want this in the schema I think we should figure out why the instrumentation captures logs after formatting

[MhdSyrwan]

any updates on this?

@untitaker as far as i know, there is no way to capture that before formatting. since people usually generate these logs using chalk nodejs lib or a similar thing. it's already printed with these ansi colors annotations.

in order to make this work, we need at least to remove these ansi annotations if displaying a clolored log is not an option.

[untitaker]

Right, we didn't really start working on this yet but we're discussing internally what to do about it.

[windware-ono]

Any news?
I'd like the support for this too.

It looks semi garbage with the ansi escape sequences all over.

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[ImUrX]

Any place I should look in the code to start adding support for this, or at least for now normalize it?