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Conditional debug logging for Go libraries.
View the docs.
Installation
$ go get github.com/tj/go-debug
Example
debug.go (your app)
package debug
import debug "github.com/nmccready/go-debug"
const Debug = Debug("app-name")
main.go
package main
import dbg "github.com/YOUR-APP/WHEREVER_DEBUG_GO_IS"
import "time"
var debug = dbg.Spawn("main")
func main() {
for {
// app-name:main ....
debug.Log("sending mail")
debug.Log(func()string { return "sending mail" })
debug.Log("send email to %s", "tobi@segment.io")
debug.Log("send email to %s", "loki@segment.io")
debug.Log("send email to %s", "jane@segment.io")
helper()
time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
}
}
func helper() {
debug.Spawn("helper").Log("hi") // -> app-name:main:helper hi
}
If you run the program with the DEBUG=*
environment variable you will see:
15:58:15.115 34us 33us app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:15.115 34us 33us app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:15.116 3us 3us app-name:main - send email to tobi@segment.io
15:58:15.116 1us 1us app-name:main - send email to loki@segment.io
15:58:15.116 1us 1us app-name:main - send email to jane@segment.io
15:58:15.117 1us 1us app-name:main:helper - hi
15:58:15.620 504ms 504ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:15.620 504ms 504ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:15.620 6us 6us app-name:main - send email to tobi@segment.io
15:58:15.620 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to loki@segment.io
15:58:15.620 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to jane@segment.io
15:58:15.621 5us 5us app-name:main:helper - hi
15:58:16.123 503ms 503ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:16.123 504ms 504ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:16.123 7us 7us app-name:main - send email to tobi@segment.io
15:58:16.123 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to loki@segment.io
15:58:16.123 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to jane@segment.io
15:58:16.124 5us 5us app-name:main:helper - hi
15:58:16.625 501ms 501ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:15.620 504ms 504ms app-name:main - sending mail
15:58:16.625 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to tobi@segment.io
15:58:16.625 4us 4us app-name:main - send email to loki@segment.io
15:58:16.625 5us 5us app-name:main - send email to jane@segment.io
15:58:16.626 5us 5us app-name:main:helper - hi
A timestamp and two deltas are displayed. The timestamp consists of hour, minute, second and microseconds. The left-most delta is relative to the previous debug call of any name, followed by a delta specific to that debug function. These may be useful to identify timing issues and potential bottlenecks.
The DEBUG environment variable
Executables often support --verbose
flags for conditional logging, however
libraries typically either require altering your code to enable logging,
or simply omit logging all together. go-debug allows conditional logging
to be enabled via the DEBUG environment variable, where one or more
patterns may be specified.
For example suppose your application has several models and you want
to output logs for users only, you might use DEBUG=models:user
. In contrast
if you wanted to see what all database activity was you might use DEBUG=models:*
,
or if you're love being swamped with logs: DEBUG=*
. You may also specify a list of names delimited by a comma, for example DEBUG=mongo,redis:*
.
The name given should be the package name, however you can use whatever you like.
License
MIT
Development
Install:
- yq -
brew install yq
- golines -
go get -u github.com/segmentio/golines
- golangci-lint -
brew install golangci/tap/golangci-lint