Duplicate General-Purpose Logging Area

QuackieMackie

QuackieMackie

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While developing an addon, I realised there’s currently no suitable place to log routine messages or interactions that don’t qualify as server errors.

I’d like to see this improved by either:
  • Expanding the Server error log to support general-purpose logging (e.g. by categorising log types).
  • Introducing a dedicated general-purpose log that add-ons can easily write to.
This would save developers from needing to build their own logging systems for simple cases.
 
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I built an addon for exactly this purpose - allows you to create a Monolog log for development purposes, but can also run in production.

Note that by default this will simply create a text-based log file in the internal_data directory - but Monolog can be configured to send information to a bunch of other external systems for more comprehensive log support.

Monolog Logging Service Sim

Monolog Logging Service

Provides Monolog logging facilities for XenForo 2.x addons

I use this with a few of my own addons.
 
Sim said:
I built an addon for exactly this purpose - allows you to create a Monolog log for development purposes, but can also run in production.

Note that by default this will simply create a text-based log file in the internal_data directory - but Monolog can be configured to send information to a bunch of other external systems for more comprehensive log support.

Monolog Logging Service Sim

Monolog Logging Service

Provides Monolog logging facilities for XenForo 2.x addons

I use this with a few of my own addons.
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That's handy to know thank you, I thought it was weird no one had made anything for this yet.
 
Similar to my suggestion, just didn't know quite how to word "different log types". Threads should be merged so the upvotes are added(?) together.

frm

Thread 'Different Log types (Cron, Field change, User change...)'

Right now, XenForo has a Server error log and E-mail bounce log.

I would propose other log types such as a Cron execution log; a Custom field change log would be nice (in addition to saving edit history), and while there is a Custom thread field log add on, it doesn't work for all custom fields across all add ons that could implement it; and the User Change log moved into the same format as Server error log and E-mail bounce log to catch spammers much easier.

A lot of add ons run cron jobs, and while they might not be recorded in the Server error log, they could not be doing the...
 
frm said:
Similar to my suggestion, just didn't know quite how to word "different log types". Threads should be merged so the upvotes are added(?) together.

frm

Thread 'Different Log types (Cron, Field change, User change...)'

Right now, XenForo has a Server error log and E-mail bounce log.

I would propose other log types such as a Cron execution log; a Custom field change log would be nice (in addition to saving edit history), and while there is a Custom thread field log add on, it doesn't work for all custom fields across all add ons that could implement it; and the User Change log moved into the same format as Server error log and E-mail bounce log to catch spammers much easier.

A lot of add ons run cron jobs, and while they might not be recorded in the Server error log, they could not be doing the...
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Ah I hadn't seen this suggestion :D

Yes, I agree with more logging for cron jobs, it would be nice to see a warning or something. 'X cron job has taken x mins to run.' or something along those lines.

This is what I made, and this is how I could see it looking:
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