Python RESTful API Asyncronous Logging Handler with Loggly Support

A simple logging handler for python that will send any logging events out to a RESTful API using HTTP POST requests. Fully asyncronuous using requests-futures, tested for Python 2 & 3, and has support for Loggly.

Installation

pip install restapi-logging-handler

Usage

Import whichever module(s) you need:

from restapi_logging_handler import RestApiHandler
from restapi_logging_handler import LogglyHandler

RESTful API Usage

Set your Python logging handler to send logs to a REST-ful API

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
restapiHandler = RestApiHandler('http://my.restfulapi.com/endpoint/')
logger.addHandler(restapiHandler)
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
logger.info("Send this to my RESTful API")

By default, it sends the log data as a JSON object. You can currently change that to send text instead.

restapiHandler = RestApiHandler('http://my.restfulapi.com/endpoint/', 'text')

Loggly Usage

Set your Python logging handler to send logs out to your Loggly account. The handler collects logs in a batch and sends them out every interval seconds. After the interval passes, Loggly is sent all the logs collected. There are max_attempts attempts to send the logs before the internal handleError() method and an exception are thrown. ####Parameters

• custom_token: The LogglyHandler takes as its first argument the custom token given to you when you sign up for a Loggly account.
• app_tags: The second argument can be a tag string, or a list of tags to be associated with the log inside of Loggly.
• interval: defaults to 1 second
• max_attempts: defaults to 5 attempts

logglyHandler = LogglyHandler(
    custom_token='loggly-custom-key',
    app_tags=['tag1','tag2',...],
    interval=1.0,
    max_attemps=5
)

Testing

Install tox and run it to test against Python 2 and 3.

sudo pip install nose
tox

Forking

If you'd like to extend this to include more REST-ful API's than just Loggly, send me a pull request!