CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[unreleased]

[4.16.0]

• Add appender for Honeybadger Insights using the events API
• Add support for Ruby 3.3.
• Allow SyncProcessor to be called from appenders.
• Fix incorrect metrics usage examples in documentation.
• Add :duration_ms to Logfmt formatter.
• Fixes #216 Log message from supplied message argument when payload contains payload key.

[4.15.0]

• Add support for Elasticsearch 7.x and 8.x in the Elasticsearch appender.

[4.14.0]

• Add support for custom headers in HTTP appender.

[4.13.0]

• Replace autoload with require for most requires since Ruby does not allow a require during a signal trap for the extreme use case where the logger is called from the signal trap before the application has made any logging calls.

• Move newrelic_rpm.rb mock to the test/mocks directory

• Add add_mocks_to_load_path

• Add NewRelicLogs formatter & appender

• Move initialization of events array in CaptureLogEvents to constructor.

• Add clear method to CaptureLogEvents.

• Add payload logging to payload_includes Minitest helper functionality.

• Fix bug in payload_includes testing functionality where if a key is not in the payload the test would pass.

• Quote 3.0 in CI configuration to prevent truncation.

• Add Minitest helper methods to assist with asserting logging events.

[4.12.0]

• Add SyslogCee formatter for Syslog.
• The Logfmt formatter can now parse Hashes and Arrays correctly.
• Fixes a race condition in SemanticLogger.reopen.
• Ability to directly set proxy for SemanticLogger::Appender::Http
• Fixed log level signal handler to include fatal and error levels.
• Fixes #218 Calls Sentry.init inside sentry_ruby appender only if it is not initialized
• Contributor experience related to RuboCop was improved with the following changes:
  • New .rubocop_todo.yml to hold RuboCop offenses and enable a clean run of RuboCop against the current code base.
  • A number of items in .rubocop.yml were removed to allow RuboCop to manage them within the .rubocop_todo.yml file.
  • Updated RuboCop's target version to Ruby 2.7.5.
  • Updated minimum Ruby version to 2.7.5 as earlier versions are end-of-life.
• Add mutexes to SemanticLogger.sync! in case some users are still using it in a multi-threaded environment.

[4.11.0]

• Add kafka client option to use system SSL settings: ssl_ca_certs_from_system
• Support rails tagged logger usage that yields itself:

Rails.logger.tagged("tag") do |logger|
  logger.info("Hello World")
end

• Fixes #211 Stop modifying supplied hash.

• Fixes #194 Give message precedence over the message in the payload, if any.

• Passthru the ssl_ca_certs_from_system and required_acks flags to the ruby-kafka driver

[4.10.0]

• New Feature: Add support for newer sentry-ruby gem.
• Fixed flush on AsyncBatch appender not immediately writing logs.

[4.9.0]

• Separate out File and IO log appenders.
• Add "log rotation" like capabilities to the File appender.
  • Re-open the log file after a specified number of log entries.
    • See new SemanticLogger::Appender::File option reopen_count.
  • Re-open the log file after a specified number of bytes have been written by this process.
    • See new SemanticLogger::Appender::File option reopen_size.
  • New format directives so that file name dynamically includes any of the following attributes every time the log file is re-opened:
    • Host name
    • Process Id
    • Date
    • Time
    • See new SemanticLogger::Appender::File argument file_name.
• Add automatic retries for the file appender when an error occurs while writing to the file.
  • See new SemanticLogger::Appender::File option retry_count.
• Other options added to the file appender:
  • append, exclusive_lock, encoding
• Documentation: Fix link to GitHub Actions CI configuration.
• Add support for logging to elastic data-streams
• Handle case when tags are passed as an array in a single argument to SemanticLogger::Base#tagged.
• feat: Add tags to logfmt formatter output
• fix: Ensure time_key is used in logfmt formatter

Note: See the readme for v4.9 upgrade instructions.

[4.8.2]

• Fixed method redefinition warnings when Rails is also used.
• Validate IO object can write when supplied to an IO appender.

[4.8.1]

• Fixed issue where adding a file appender was being ignored after a console appender had already been added.

[4.8.0]

Changed

• Dropped support for Ruby 2.3 and 2.4.
• Moved testing to Github Actions.

Fixed

• Allow SemanticLogger.sync! to be called after appenders have already been created.
• Refactor SemanticLogger::Utils.extract_backtrace for better backtraces in Rails Semantic Logger.

Added

• Support for Ruby v3.
• New Logfmt formatter. #170
• Prevent multiple console (stdout or stderr) appenders from being added.

[4.7.4]

Fixed

• Allow Module filter to be passed in on the logger initializer #162

[4.7.3]

Fixed

• Remove host from the SplunkHttp appender message body.
• Support Bugsnag 6. Fix infinite loop. #150
• Fix documentation. #158

[4.7.2]

Changed

• Make Remote Syslog packet size configurable.

[4.7.1]

Fixed

• Fix an undefined method error when handling exceptions from on_log.
• Remove environment from the SplunkHttp appender message body.
• Replace Awesome Print with new supported fork called Amazing Print. #156
• Improve backward compatability. For example: logger.message("Hello", duration: 20)

[4.7.0]

Added

• SemanticLogger::Log.to_h
• Make it easier to remove the pid from logs #122
• Add Synchronous mode to perform logging in the current thread #137

[4.6.1]

Fixed

• Avoid leaking sensitive information when logging appender name
• Update docs to reflect minimum supported ruby v2.3
• Update docs to include DelayedJob in list of replaced loggers

[4.6.0]

Fixed

• Allow sending a metric with a message
• Fix graylog issue with non-exception logs

Changed

• When a required gem is missing, raise a LoadError rather than a RuntimeError
• Appender#factory method signature
• Appender#build method signature
• SemanticLogger::Base.fast_tag no longer deprecated

Removed

• Remove deprecated methods and backwards compatibility code:
  • AnsiColors::LEVEL_MAP
  • Appender::AnsiColors (use SemanticLogger::AnsiColors)
  • Appender.colorized_formatter (use SemanticLogger::Formatters::Color.new)
  • Appender.json_formatter (use SemanticLogger::Formatters::Json.new)
  • SemanticLogger::Base.payload (use SemanticLogger.named_tags)
  • SemanticLogger::Base.with_payload (use SemanticLogger.named_tagged)
  • SemanticLogger::Log.has_paylod? (use SemanticLogger::Log.payload?)
  • SemanticLogger::Log.formatted_time (use time.strftime(Formatters::Base.build_time_format))
  • SemanticLogger::Log.to_h (use Use SemanticLogger::Formatters::Raw)

Added

• Log environment when available

[4.5.0]

Fixed

• Fix 'NameError' always raised and logged by Appenders#close
• SemanticLogger::Appender::Async segmentation fault Recreate Queue on #re-open Refactoring:
  • Create Appenders class
  • Move log subscribers to Logger class
• Error if payload does not respond to #size + Simple strings are shown twice Handle non-hash/payload as second argument by converting non-hash second argument to a string and appending to the message

Added

• Date pattern support in Elasticsearch
• Support new Net::TCPClient in TCP Syslog appender

Changed

• Use monotonic clock when measuring time
• Break out Appenders and Levels into separate files

[4.4.0]

Fixed

• Reopen child appender when using Async or Async Batch

Added

• Add RabbitMQ appender
• Add Minitest Reporter to log test start and finish messages, as well as the duration of each test
• Fluentd formatter

Changed

• Allow precision to be specified for formatters
• Allow a Module to define a filter

[4.3.1]

Fixed

• Fix Splunk HTTP Appender sourcetype -- @chroto
• Add back named tags as an instance method since it used in Rails apps -- @allcentury

[4.3.0]

Added

• Add option to allow an appender to log metrics only events. I.e. An event that contains a metric name, optional payload, but no message or exception. By default such events are not logged, except to the metric appenders.

Fixed

• Reopen Syslog when already open -- @seanthingee
• Fix Sentry context attributes cannot be nil -- @joker-777

[4.2.2]

Fixed

• Fix Process Id not logging.

[4.2.1]

Added

• Add #push_named_tags and #pop_named_tags -- @aburgel
• Sentry appender can now define user context and tags context -- @joker-777

Changed

• RuboCop Changes

Fixed

• Fix Elasticsearch bulk bugs -- @wfxr
• Fix SemanticLogger.on_log -- @tsauerwein
• Fix exception typo for syslog -- @nbulaj

[4.2.0]

Added

• New Signalfx appender.
• New Async appender that puts any other appender in its own thread.
• New Batch appender to batch up groups of messages for appenders that support batching.
• API now supports metric dimensions.
• Support for metric only events. Does not require a log message to be created just to create a metric event.
• A new one line formatter. Strips stack traces and newlines in log messages.

Changed

• Call SemanticLogger.flush instead of SemanticLogger.close on process exit.
• Elasticsearch appender now supports remaining Elasticsearch arguments. Thank you @willsoto.
• Documentation fixes. Thank you @Silex.
• Re-open http appender on failure.

Fixed

• #77 ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments. Now supports Hash only arguments when logging without needing a metric wrapper.
• Sentry Appender
  • #69 undefined method error_class for the Sentry appender. Thank you @gingerlime.
  • Prevent feedback loops. Thank you @gingerlime.
  • #74 NoMethodError: undefined method `host=' for #Raven::Event:0x0000000d1621e8. Thank you @gingerlime.

[4.1.0]

Added

• New log format customization mechanism. Any element within the log format can be replaced without having to re-implement entire formatter.
• Apache Kafka Appender.
• Prototype Syslog CEE format.
• logger#tagged now supports named tags. (Hash)

Changed

• Elasticsearch now uses a bulk load api to improve throughput. Thank you Xavier Lange
• Replaced hash arguments with Ruby keyword arguments across all appenders and formatters.
• Removed deprecated arguments.
• Refactored Syslog appender and moved format code out of appender and into Syslog formatter.
• When the process exits SemanticLogger.close is now called instead of SemanticLogger.flush. Earlier test fameworks had issues where the at_exit was called and shutdown Semantic Logger before tests were run.

Upgrade notes:

• As noted above deprecated arguments have been removed, so the following code, if any:

SemanticLogger::Appender::File.new($stderr, :warn)

Needs to be replaced with keyword arguments:

SemanticLogger::Appender::File.new(io: $stderr, level: :warn)

[4.0.0]

Added

• #backtrace to log the backtrace for a thread.
• named_tags to support hash like tagging of log messages.

Changed

• Ruby V2.1 is now the minimum runtime version.

• Switch from Hash arguments to Ruby keyword arguments, for better performance, validation and defaults.

• Replaced Logger#with_payload with SemanticLogger.named_tagged.

• Replaced Logger#payload with SemanticLogger.named_tags.

• Any payload elements passed into the log line must now be specified in a separate :payload tag.

  • For example any occurrences of:

  logger.error(message: 'Hello', response: response_message)

  • Must be changed to use the payload tag:

  logger.error(message: 'Hello', payload: {response: response_message} )

  • Otherwise Ruby will raise the following error:

  ArgumentError: unknown keywords: response
  semantic_logger/lib/semantic_logger/log.rb:65:in `assign'
  

• For JSON and Hash appender format, payload is now in its own :payload tag instead of being merged into the hash.

• Text and Color formatters now include named_tags in their output.

• MongoDB Appender has been upgraded to support Mongo Ruby Client V2.

• Replaced hash arguments with keyword arguments.

  • For example, the Bugsnag Appender now only accepts the level as follows:

SemanticLogger::Appender::Bugsnag.new(level: :info)

Fixed

• Graylog appender when logger is called with only an exception object.
• During a backtrace dump, include the current thread on Ruby MRI.

Dropped Support for

• Rails 3.2
• Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
• JRuby 1.7

[3.4.1]

Fixed

• Failed to load appender when symbolic name includes an underscore, for example:

SemanticLogger.add_appender(appender: :new_relic)

[3.4.0]

Added

• Sentry Logging Appender.
• :metric_amount in JSON and Hash output.
• Add silence_logger for Active Record's Session Store.

[3.3.0]

Added

• Add Raw Formatter.
• Add standard application and host variables for all appenders.
• Add TCP log appender, with support for SSL connections.
• Add UDP log appender.

Changed

• Consolidate formatter argument extraction.
• Log warning at 1,000 and info at 100 queued messages if logging appenders back up.
• SemanticLogger::Appender::Base is now SemanticLogger::Subscriber

Fixed

• SemanticLogger.on_metric when using a Symbol was not resolving to the correct namespace.
• Support global SemanticLogger.application and SemanticLogger.host in HTTP Appender

[3.2.1] - 2016-03-08

Fixed

• Correctly support SSL options when using https with the HTTP Appender.
• Also affects SplunkHttp and ElasticSearch appenders when using SSL.

[3.2.0] - 2016-03-02

Added

• New Honeybadger appender, care of Chris Lamb.
  • Send log messages to Honeybadger.

Changed

• Upgrade native Splunk appender to current API.
• Cleanup appenders and use should_log?.
• Moved Thread specific logging methods to global SemanticLogger namespace.
  • SemanticLogger.tagged
  • SemanticLogger.tags
  • SemanticLogger.push_tags
  • SemanticLogger.pop_tags
  • SemanticLogger.fast_tag
• SemanticLogger.on_metric now takes in addition to a Proc, an object that responds to #call, or a Symbol naming a builtin metrics appender.
  • For example: :new_relic, statsd

Removed

• Removed deprecated methods:
  • SemanticLogger::Logger.appenders
  • SemanticLogger::Logger.cache_count

[3.1.0] - 2016-02-27

Added

• Hash only log message. Example:

logger.info message: 'Hello', metric: 'user/hello', duration: 25

• APIs to make SemanticLogger::Logger fully compatible with the Ruby Logger.
  • <<
  • progname, progname=
  • sev_threshold, sev_threshold=
  • formatter
  • datetime_format
  • close
  • reopen
  • add
• New Relic and Bugsnag metrics appenders.
  • Send metrics to New Relic or Bugsnag by specifying :metric on log entries.

Changed

• Replaced benchmark_info with better named measure_info, etc.
  • Existing benchmark_... methods have been retained for backward compatibilty.
• Break out formatters into their own namespace
  • SemanticLogger::Formatters::Color, :color
  • SemanticLogger::Formatters::Default, :default
  • SemanticLogger::Formatters::Json, :json
• Changed SemanticLogger.add_appender to take hash parameters.
  • Deprecated non hash style arguments.
  • For Example:
    • SemanticLogger.add_appender(file_name: 'development.log', formatter: :color)
  • See Appenders
  • Move AnsiColors into its own module: SemanticLogger::AnsiColors
• Appenders now use the same hash style arguments as SemanticLogger.add_appender.
• Appenders use the new common formatters where applicable.
• Appenders now use custom formatters as the #call method for better performance over blocks.
• Bugsnag appender will now forward :fatal errors, since some were being ignored and not being reported in Bugsnag. Changes in Rails Semantic Logger allow Rails messages to be sent correctly to Bugsnag.
• Use Ruby's built-in JSON library

Fixes

• Elasticsearch Appender rotates through daily indexes without restart.

[3.0.0] - 2016-02-08

Added

• New Elasticsearch appender.
  • Send log messages directly to Elasticsearch.
  • Viewable and searchable in kibana.
• New HTTP(S) appender.
  • Use HTTP POST to forward log messages.
  • By default uses JSON format, and can be customized as needed.
• New Graylog appender.
  • Use HTTP POST to forward log messages.
  • By default uses JSON format, and can be customized as needed.
• Global settings for host and application names that are shared across all appenders:
  • SemanticLogger.host
  • SemanticLogger.application
• JSON output formatter.

Changed

• All appenders must support :filter, and :levels
• Syslog appender
  • Use :url instead of :server option.
  • Specify protocol in :uri now instead of separately.
    • SemanticLogger::Appender::Syslog.new(url: 'udp://myloghost:514')
• Better logic to exclude SemanticLogger from the top of the captured backtrace.
• Better error messages when soft dependencies are not present.

[2.21.0] - 2015-12-18

Added

• Soft load Awesome Print if present to colorize any logged Hash data.
• fast_tag as a much faster alternative to tagged when adding just a single string to the tag list.
• Other performance improvements.

Fixed

• Correctly log the file name and line number of the log message even when an exception stacktrace is logged.

[2.20.0] - 2015-12-9

Changed

• SemanticLogger::Loggable
  • Change where #logger is defined so that it can override any prior #logger methods or implementations.
  • Specifically needed to support replacing the built-in Rails loggers.

[2.19.0] - 2015-12-5

Changed

• SemanticLogger::Loggable
  • Add support for inheritance hierarchies so that adding to a base class will result in each child class logging with its own class name instead of the parents logger.
• Switch from thread_safe gem to concurrent-ruby gem dependency.

Removed

• SemanticLogger::Logger#formatter

Fixed

• Handle when Awesome Print fails to render Hash output.

[2.18.0] - 2015-11-11

Added

• Support logging nested exceptions, care of Brad Pardee

Changed

• Refactor Log struct into its own file.
• Reduce logging verbosity from SemanticLogger itself at :debug level.

[2.17.0] - 2015-11-5

Added

• Log filename and line number of log messages.
  • Use SemanticLogger.backtrace_level to control when it is captured.
• Improved JRuby support.
  • Support Java Exceptions that do not derive from Exception

Fixed

• Handle payloads that do not respond to #empty?
• Suport Ruby 1.9 backtraces

[2.16.0] - 2015-10-25

Added

• Use Awesome Print to colorize Hash output, when available.
  • Thanks to Karim Kiatlottiavi

Changed

• Moved Semantic Logger under the Rocket Job organization.
• Code reformatting and use MiniTest

Fixed

• Only log the payload if it is not empty
  • Thanks to Ben Fagin
• Add default index for Splunk appender
  • Thanks to Zach Taylor

[2.15.0] - 2015-07-09

Changed

• Refine bugsnag appender messages when sending an error message without an exception.

[2.14.0] - 2015-04-09

Added

• New Bugsnag appender, care of Johnathan Ludwig.
  • Forward log messages to Bugsnag.

Changed

• Improve thread stack dump output.

[2.13.1] - 2015-02-13

Fixed

• Raise default JRuby Garbage Collection event logging minimum duration to 100ms.

[2.13.0] - 2015-02-12

Added

• Log JRuby Garbage Collection events.
• SemancicLogger::Logger#silence to change the level during the supplied block.
  • Reduce logging messages by raising the log level in the block.
• Add :silence option to benchmark_... methods to change the log level for the duration of the block.

[2.12.0] - 2015-01-22

Added

• SemantcLogger::DebugAsTraceLogger for existing gems that log :debug when they should be logging at :trace.

Changed

• Allow the log level of a specific logger to be below that of the global default.

[2.11.0] - 2015-01-02

Added

• Ability to increase the log level in a benchmark block when an exception is raised inside the block.

Changed

• Switch to Minitest, removed Mocha.
• Switch to Net::TCPClient for Syslog.
• Add support to re-open syslog, splunk, and mongodb after a process fork.

[2.10.0] - 2014-07-29

Added

• New Splunk appender.
  • Send log messages directly to Splunk using the splunk gem.
  • Thanks to Andrew Medeiros.
• Add filters at the appender level.
  • Each appender can have its own filter.

Removed

• Dropped support for Ruby 1.8.

Fixed

• Allow use of % in the message string.
  • Syslog behaves like printf which causes an ArgumentError any time a % is seen in the printed log.
  • Thanks to Leo Correa
• Tagged logging when tags consist of arrays of arrays.

[2.9.0] - 2014-06-25

Added

• NewRelic appender
  • Send :error and :fatal log messages directly to New Relic using the newrelic_rpm gem.
  • Thanks to Marc Bellingraths.

[2.8.0] - 2014-04-21

Added

• Use UNIX signals to change the process log level at runtime.
• Add filtering at both the logger and appender level.

Changed

• Replace mongo appender safe option with write_concern
• Appenders can now specify which log messages to include for that appender.

[2.7.0] - 2014-03-07

Added

• Add support for metrics when calling benchmark methods.
• Set Java thread name under JRuby.

Changed

• Set appender thread name and increase max length logged to file for the thread name.

[2.6.0] - 2013-12-10

• Fix Java nil pointer exception on JRuby due to tags array being used concurrently by multiple threads.
  • Use clone to create a dedicated copy for the appender thread

[2.5.0] - 2013-11-08

• Add support for naming a thread so that all log entries in that thread have the same thread name.

Changed

• Any calls to SemanticLogger::Base.thread_name must be changed to Thread.current.name

Fixed

• If :min_duration was not met exceptions were not being logged. Always log exceptions

[2.4.0] - 2013-10-25

Added

• Syslog appender
  • Send log messages directly to a local or remote Syslog server.
  • Supports local syslog and remote syslog over TCP or UDP.
  • Thanks to Marc Bellingraths.

Changed

• Refactor colors used for each log level.

Fixed

• Add ability to reopen the file appender after forking the process.

[2.3.0] - 2013-09-23

Added

• Add colorized logging.

Fixed

• Exclude tags when the list is empty.

[2.2.0] - 2013-08-02

Fixed

• Fix tagged logging to work with Rails 4.

[2.1.0] - 2013-04-03

Changed

• Refactor interface to make it simpler to use in non-rails environments.
• Support replacing instance logger in Loggable mix-in.

[2.0.0] - 2012-12-20

Changed

• Remove Rails railtie and move to a separate gem: rails_semantic_logger.

Fixed

• Handle condition where benchmark_info has no params.

[1.0.0] - 2012-12-06

Fixed

• Fix missing log entry when return is called inside the block.
• Fix "Errno::EBADF: Bad file descriptor - Bad file descriptor" on termination of the Ruby process.
• Handle scenario where "Appender thread has stopped" is being logged after Ruby has released file handles etc.
• Set log level for internal messages to the same as Rails.
• Workaround JRuby 1.8.6 under Trinidad with mode 1.9 startup and shutdown issues.
• Exclude gem files from built gem package.
• Help address a startup issue under JRuby with 1.9.

Changed

• Move at_exit into global space.

[0.11.0] - 2012-10-30

Changed

• Rename module Attribute to Loggable.

[0.10.0] - 2012-10-30

• Add SemanticLogger::Attribute mix-in to define class and instance variables for 'logger'.

Changed

• Change exception description to exception message when exception is logged to Mongo collection.
• Add the level_index to Mongo Data so it can be searched on
  • Example: level_index > 3

[0.9.0] - 2012-10-24

Added

• Log queue depth when flushing appenders.

Changed

• Move Appender base class behavior into it's own Base class
• Add guard to only flush if appender thread is still active

[0.8.0] - 2012-10-19

Added

• Remove shutdown ability/requirement since the Rails environment initializes multiple times causing repeated startup and shutdown issues.
  • The appender thread never stops and only flushes on termination now.
• Prevent messages from being queued up when no appenders have been defined. I.e. All logging overhead can now be entirely removed and only enabled when desired by adding an appender.

Changed

• Replace using queuing for shutdown response with a Thread#join in case shutdown is called more than once.

[0.7.0] - 2012-10-10

Added

• Log time in microseconds on Ruby MRI.
• Add lag checking in case the appenders start falling behind.
• Add test to verify custom formatter.
• Support Ruby Logger Integer levels.
• Add parameters to benchmark_info etc. to control exception handling and min duration.

[0.6.0] - 2012-09-18

Added

• Replace Rails loggers if they are present.

Fixed

• Use current thread object id as thread id when not using JRuby.
• Ignore existing Rails loggers since servers like Trinidad supply their own loggers which will result in duplicate log entries in the log file.

[0.5.0] - 2012-09-11

Added

• Log using the time the log was captured, not when it was written to the appender.
• File and $stdout logging appenders.
  • Faster than going via the Ruby Logger.
• Railtie support for Rails 3 and now 3.2.
• Replace Rails Buffered Logger with SemanticLogger File Appender.

Fixed

• Log duration in ms.

[0.4.0] - 2012-09-05

Added

• Support :trace log_level through Rails config.
• Add tags to Mongo document.
• Call flush only if recipient implements it.
• Remove trailing newlines.

Removed

• Removed SemanticLogger::Logger#flush since Rails is flushing several times after completing a web request.
  • Use SemanticLogger.flush instead to flush all appenders.

Changed

• Update docs

[0.3.0] - 2012-08-21

Added

• Add support for tags and payload hashes that are added to every log entry within the blocks scope and the current thread.

Changed

• Initialize logger before the Rails one to prevent startup timing issues.

[0.2.0] - 2012-08-20

Changed

• Support restarts during tests.

[0.1.0] - 2012-08-17

Added

• Use Queue based logging with a separate appender thread.
• Ruby Logger Appender.
• MongoDB Appender.