Handlers

Handler s are what push the finalized log entries to the output streams. They have a common interface with a default required name and a write method.

Streaming

Streaming handlers write to basic IO streams, such as STDOUT and STDERR. There is one basic StreamingHandler and two convenience handlers that inherit from that: StdOutHandler and StdErrHandler.

Files

There is one type of file handler: FileHandler. This module does not provide handlers for rotating log files. The rationale behind that is that all *NIX systems have software specifically designed to do that, and it’s much faster and reliable. Let’s separate concerns here: this logging software is meant to be both Pythonic and fast. There’s nothing Pythonic or fast about reinventing the wheel. A great utility for log rotation is logrotate, which is available for Debian, Red Hat, and BSD systems.

Linux Manpage: https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate

FreeBSD Manpage: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=logrotate&manpath=SuSE+Linux/i386+11.3

Sockets

Socket handlers write messages to socket connections - these can be anything from internet wide network connections to local filesystem UNIX sockets.

There is one base SocketHandler type provided by the module. It can be used in a number of ways to setup any sort of socket based logging. There are several other convenience handlers as well that have presets for socket families and types.