PSLog

Logger written for Powershell, modelled on log4j

Example XML configuration file

<PSLOG level="debug" console="true" >
    <logsettings    
        maxBackupFiles="5" 
        maxFileSize="10000" 
        name="logfile.log" 
        pattern="%d% %t% [%lvl%]: %log_data%" 
        datepattern="yyyy-MM-dd" 
        timepattern="HH:mm:ss:ffff" 
        logDestinationRegex="\\(config)\\(.*)\.xml"
        encoding="UTF-8"
    />
</PSLOG>

Settings description

Setting	Description	Default value
level	The level of logging that should be written to file. INFO/DEBUG/WARN/ERROR/FATAL	DEBUG
console	Whether or not logging should also be output to console	false
maxBackupFiles	The amount of files to rotate before overwriting old logs	N/A
maxFileSize	The max size of the log file before its rotated	N/A
name	The name of the logfile to be used. Will belogged to \logs\	N/A
pattern	The pattern of the log entries	%d% %t% [%lvl%]: %log_data%
datepattern	Pattern for date (1)	yyyy-MM-dd
timepattern	Pattern for timestamp (1)	HH:mm:ss
logDestinationRegex	Regular expression of where the .xml file is saved	\(config)\(.*).xml
encoding	The encoding the content of the content in the logfile.	UTF-8

(1) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings?view=netframework-4.8

Possible encodings can be retrieved with [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncodings()