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Co-authored-by: Florent Le Borgne <florent.leborgne@elastic.co>
2025-03-04 14:56:07 +01:00

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Logging service [logging-service]

Allows a plugin to provide status and diagnostic information.

::::{note} The Logging service is only available server side. ::::

import type { PluginInitializerContext, CoreSetup, Plugin, Logger } from '@kbn/core/server';

export class MyPlugin implements Plugin {
  private readonly logger: Logger;

  constructor(initializerContext: PluginInitializerContext) {
    this.logger = initializerContext.logger.get();
  }

  public setup(core: CoreSetup) {
    try {
      this.logger.debug('doing something...');
      // …
    } catch (e) {
      this.logger.error('failed doing something...');
    }
  }
}

Usage [_usage_2]

Usage is very straightforward, one should just get a logger for a specific context and use it to log messages with different log level.

const logger = kibana.logger.get('server');

logger.trace('Message with `trace` log level.');
logger.debug('Message with `debug` log level.');
logger.info('Message with `info` log level.');
logger.warn('Message with `warn` log level.');
logger.error('Message with `error` log level.');
logger.fatal('Message with `fatal` log level.');

const loggerWithNestedContext = kibana.logger.get('server', 'http');
loggerWithNestedContext.trace('Message with `trace` log level.');
loggerWithNestedContext.debug('Message with `debug` log level.');

And assuming logger for server name with console appender and trace level was used, console output will look like this:

[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][TRACE][server] Message with `trace` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][DEBUG][server] Message with `debug` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][INFO ][server] Message with `info` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][WARN ][server] Message with `warn` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][ERROR][server] Message with `error` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][FATAL][server] Message with `fatal` log level.

[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][TRACE][server.http] Message with `trace` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][DEBUG][server.http] Message with `debug` log level.

The log will be less verbose with warn level for the server logger:

[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][WARN ][server] Message with `warn` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][ERROR][server] Message with `error` log level.
[2017-07-25T11:54:41.639-07:00][FATAL][server] Message with `fatal` log level.