Cloud Logging for Go

This module provides a log wrapper that is intended to handle logging in cloud-based backend environment.

Changelog

• 1.1.0: Renamed Stackdriver -> Google Cloud Logging; this is API-breaking change.
• 1.0.0: Bumped version to 1.0.0. Fixed zap logger accumulating structured logging fields.
• 0.0.16: Added JSON formatting output hints
• 0.0.15: Added default parameters for structured logging
• 0.0.13: Argument handling bugfix, added GoDoc reference to README
• 0.0.11: Improved documentation.

Usage

Install the dependency:

go get -u github.com/qvik/go-cloudlogging

Convenience constructors & examples

For convenience, several constructor methods are provided; see below.

Google Compute Engine (GCE) example:

func init() {
	log = cloudlog.MustNewComputeEngineLogger("project-id", "MyAppLog")
}

This could also used for Kuhernetes.

Google App Engine (GAE) ecample:

func init() {
	log = cloudlog.MustNewAppEngineLogger() // Optionally define log ID as arg
}

Google Cloud Functions (GCF) example:

func init() {
	log = cloudlog.MustNewCloudFunctionLogger() // Optionally define log ID as arg
}

AWS Elastic Beanstalk / EC2 example:

	logfile := "/var/log/example-app.log"
	log = cloudlogging.MustNewLogger(cloudlogging.WithZap(),
		cloudlogging.WithOutputHints(cloudlogging.JSONFormat),
		cloudlogging.WithOutputPaths(logfile),
		cloudlogging.WithErrorOutputPaths(logfile))
}

License

The library is distributed with the MIT License.