Could we format logs better?

[azure]

Could we format logs better?

[edwin-huber]

Thanks.
I'll mark this as a good first issue and hopefully somebody can get around to looking at it soon.

We use morgan middleware for the logging, which is documented here:
https://github.com/expressjs/morgan

to give you the date and unformatted version like you are asking for, one would need to usesomething like:

if (!env.silent) {
    app.use(morgan(':date[iso] :method :url :status :res[content-length] - :response-time ms'));
} 

[pmanlukas]

I will start implementing this change in this week

[longtimeago]

Maybe, we could have an environment variable to optionally switch log coloring off

[edwin-huber]

Many thanks for your suggestion.

What exactly are you looking to get out of the logging / how are you using it?
This will help me define some requirements and scope to improve it.
Logging is turned off with the --silent switch.
Ascii greeting is in lib/core/cli.js

logging is controlled by 'morgan' in AzuriteBlob.js, AzuriteQueue.js, AzuriteTable.js
like this:

const app = express();
                if (!env.silent) {
                    app.use(morgan('dev'));
                }

[longtimeago]

@edwin-huber Thanks for the hint :)

I've mixed 2 issues in one (sorry for that)

1. I'd like to have a way to turn off log coloring via (for example) special env variable. So, when opening logs in ordinary text editor instead of

�[0mGET /account/customer?restype=container&comp=list �[32m200 �[0m19.399 ms - 255�[0m

I would see

GET /account/customer?restype=container&comp=list 32m19.399 ms 

Usually, we forward our logs to logstash, where this coloring not needed as well :)

2. In each log entry instead of a relative time from container start would be very nice to have absolute timestamp. Otherwise, it's really tricky to match log entries in different log files

[pmanlukas]

I will look into the logging

[PureKrome]

Was there any resolution to this issue?

Is there a way to turn off logging via an environmental variable, so we can set that in our docker/docker-compose files?

[edwin-huber]

Logging has been re-implemented since this issue was opened.
If there are still specific feature requests around logging, please let us know.

[PureKrome]

@edwin-huber 👋🏻 Hi!

Logging has been re-implemented since this issue was opened.

are there any details about this? as in, what was actually re-implemented (on a high level)?

For example: can logging be turned off via an env-var, now?

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EDIT: I'm guessing i might be answering my own question now .. but the README was the place with this info is now explaining this?

https://github.com/Azure/Azurite#debug-log-configuration

Is this the main change(s) to logging?