Make Logging Suck Less

[the-paperless-project]

Make Logging Suck Less

[the01]

I have some limited experience with logging, so here is how I see it:

• simply use logging.debug(), logging.error(), logging.warning() etc. (or rather loggers)
• The easiest way would be to setup logging to a file
• The logging module has the concept of handlers which are responsible for logging to a target. (e.g. there are already handlers for logging to streams, files or even the network builtin). We would need to use (write) a handler that logs to a database. A quick search shows that has already been done for sqlite. So that shouldn't be a big problem.
  The api call would then just be a db query.

A bit of self-promotion, but maybe it's something you find useful: I have written some code that lets you simplify the logging process (especially in object oriented programming). For example inheriting classes can use self.debug()/self.info(),... and the class is the logger name (optionally an id). It can also add the function name where the log statement was called from.
The package is called flotils (not very creative on my part) and a detailed example is in the docs
[end of self promo]

[danielquinn]

Well I'm feeling like death today, but later this week I'll take a look at these links and work something out. Thanks for the input!

[danielquinn]

I've now totally overhauled the logging system, making proper use of the Python's logging module.

[stueja]

Hi,
is it possbile to turn the logging of served thumbnails off? Loading the "Documents" page causes a lot of logging messages like

Jan 22 11:45:51 brick python[466]: [22/Jan/2019 11:45:51] "GET /fetch/thumb/311 HTTP/1.0" 200 42941

Thanks,
Jan

[danielquinn]

Not that I know of. The thumbnails (and documents) are all served through Django to maintain security and handle decryption (if enabled). The files can't be accessed without going through the Paperless/Django server, and so they get logged.

You might be able to fiddle with Django's LOGGING variable in settings.py, but I wouldn't know how to do it off-hand. If you figure it out though, feel free to add some documentation to the project :-)