Skip to main content

Metrics Logging

Project description

https://secure.travis-ci.org/mozilla-services/metlog-py.png

metlog-py is a Python client for the “Metlog” system of application logging and metrics gathering developed by the Mozilla Services team. The Metlog system is meant to make life easier for application developers with regard to generating and sending logging and analytics data to various destinations. It achieves this goal (we hope!) by separating the concerns of message generation from those of message delivery and analysis. Front end application code no longer has to deal directly with separate back end client libraries, or even know what back end data storage and processing tools are in use. Instead, a message is labeled with a type (and possibly other metadata) and handed to the Metlog system, which then handles ultimate message delivery.

The Metlog system consists of three pieces:

generator

This is the application that will be generating the data that is to be sent into the system.

router

This is the initial recipient of the messages that the generator will be sending. Typically, a metlog router deserializes the messages it receives, examines them, and decides based on the message metadata or contents which endpoint(s) to which the message should be delivered.

endpoints

Different types of messages lend themselves to different types of presentation, processing, and analytics. The router has the ability to deliver messages of various types to destinations that are appropriate for handling those message types. For example, simple log messages might be output to a log file, while counter timer info is delivered to a statsd server, and Python exception information is sent to a Sentry server.

The metlog-py library you are currently reading about is a client library meant to be used by Python-based generator applications. It provides a means for those apps to insert messages into the system for delivery to the router and, ultimately, one or more endpoints.

More information about how Mozilla Services is using Metlog (including what is being used for a router and what endpoints are in use / planning to be used) can be found on the relevant spec page.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

metlog-py-0.10.0.tar.gz (45.7 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

File details

Details for the file metlog-py-0.10.0.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: metlog-py-0.10.0.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 45.7 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No

File hashes

Hashes for metlog-py-0.10.0.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 acee40147bd3728dff0ab34a0f52d34542b95a82f67279c69c2e90b4d7ac0924
MD5 a77f1c23be0e2fd80f0359bbd70c96dd
BLAKE2b-256 fb8b67c991755224d22d31bf2b8d0f44bafa5a6ad14777bd2f7e0ac3b183e03d

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page