Logging

The problem: I need to ship specific log record and had formatter written in python. It is pretty complex transformation. I thought of using Logstash but I then need to either convert this python logic or write a plugin to use already written python parser. Plus I need to install logstash… I wanted a simpler solution How to solve it Use custom python logging Handler and Filter! import logging messages = [] logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) class ListenFilter(logging.Filter): def filter(self, record): """Determine which log records to output. Returns 0 for no, nonzero for yes. """ if record.getMessage().startswith('dont: '): return False return True class RequestsHandler(logging.Handler): def emit(self, record): """Send the log records (created by loggers) to the appropriate destination. """ messages.append(record.getMessage()) handler = RequestsHandler() logger.addHandler(handler) filter_ = ListenFilter() logger.addFilter(filter_) # log I want logger.info("logme: Howdy!") # log i want to skip logger.info("dont: I'm doing great!") # prints ['logme: Howdy!'] print(messages) Cheers!