💥 logf

logf is a high-performance, zero-alloc logging library for Go applications with a minimal API overhead. It's also the fastest logfmt logging library for Go.

logf emits structured logs in logfmt style. logfmt is a flexible format that involves key=value pairs to emit structured log lines. logfmt achieves the goal of generating logs that are not just machine-friendly but also readable by humans, unlike the clunky JSON lines.

Example

package main

import (
	"time"

	"github.com/zerodha/logf"
)

func main() {
	logger := logf.New(logf.Opts{
		EnableColor:          true,
		Level:                logf.DebugLevel,
		CallerSkipFrameCount: 3,
		EnableCaller:         true,
		TimestampFormat:      time.RFC3339Nano,
		DefaultFields:        []any{"scope", "example"},
	})

	// Basic logs.
	logger.Info("starting app")
	logger.Debug("meant for debugging app")

	// Add extra keys to the log.
	logger.Info("logging with some extra metadata", "component", "api", "user", "karan")

	// Log with error key.
	logger.Error("error fetching details", "error", "this is a dummy error")

	// Log the error and set exit code as 1.
	logger.Fatal("goodbye world")
}

Text Output

timestamp=2022-07-07T12:09:10.221+05:30 level=info message="starting app"
timestamp=2022-07-07T12:09:10.221+05:30 level=info message="logging with some extra metadata" component=api user=karan
timestamp=2022-07-07T12:09:10.221+05:30 level=error message="error fetching details" error="this is a dummy error"
timestamp=2022-07-07T12:09:10.221+05:30 level=fatal message="goodbye world"

Console Output

Why another lib

There are several logging libraries, but the available options didn't meet our use case.

logf meets our constraints of:

• Clean API
• Minimal dependencies
• Structured logging but human-readable (logfmt!)
• Sane defaults out of the box

Benchmarks

You can run benchmarks with make bench.

No Colors (Default)

BenchmarkNoField-8                       7884771               144.2 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkOneField-8                      6251565               186.7 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkThreeFields-8                   6273717               188.2 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkErrorField-8                    6687260               174.8 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkHugePayload-8                   3395139               360.3 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkThreeFields_WithCaller-8        2764860               437.9 ns/op           216 B/op          2 allocs/op

With Colors

BenchmarkNoField_WithColor-8             6501867               186.6 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkOneField_WithColor-8            5938155               205.7 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkThreeFields_WithColor-8         4613145               379.4 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkErrorField_WithColor-8          3512522               353.6 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkHugePayload_WithColor-8         1520659               799.5 ns/op             0 B/op          0 allocs/op

For a comparison with existing popular libs, visit uber-go/zap#performance.

LICENSE

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