API

class systemdlogging.toolbox.SystemdFormatter(fmt=None, datefmt=None, style='%')

Formatter for systemd.

Initialize the formatter with specified format strings.

Initialize the formatter either with the specified format string, or a default as described above. Allow for specialized date formatting with the optional datefmt argument. If datefmt is omitted, you get an ISO8601-like (or RFC 3339-like) format.

Use a style parameter of ‘%’, ‘{’ or ‘$’ to specify that you want to use one of %-formatting, str.format() ({}) formatting or string.Template formatting in your format string.

Changed in version 3.2: Added the style parameter.

format(record)

Format the specified record as text.

The record’s attribute dictionary is used as the operand to a string formatting operation which yields the returned string. Before formatting the dictionary, a couple of preparatory steps are carried out. The message attribute of the record is computed using LogRecord.getMessage(). If the formatting string uses the time (as determined by a call to usesTime(), formatTime() is called to format the event time. If there is exception information, it is formatted using formatException() and appended to the message.

class systemdlogging.toolbox.SystemdHandler(level=0)

Allows passing log messages to systemd.

Additional information may be passed in extra dictionary:

  • context - Dictionary with additional information to attach to a message.
  • message_id - Message ID (usually UUID to assign to the message).
    If True ID will be generated automatically

Fills in the following fields automatically:

  • CODE_FILE - Filename
  • CODE_LINE - Code line number
  • CODE_FUNC - Code function name
  • CODE_MODULE - Python module name
  • LOGGER - Logger name
  • THREAD_ID - Thread ID if any
  • THREAD_NAME - Thread name if any
  • PROCESS_NAME - Process name if any
  • PRIORITY - Priority based on logging level
Optionally fills in:
  • TRACEBACK - Traceback information if available
  • STACK - Stacktrace information if available
  • MESSAGE_ID - Message ID (if context.message_id=True)

Initializes the instance - basically setting the formatter to None and the filter list to empty.

emit(record: logging.LogRecord)

Do whatever it takes to actually log the specified logging record.

This version is intended to be implemented by subclasses and so raises a NotImplementedError.

syslog_id = ''

SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER to add to message. If not set command name is used.

systemdlogging.toolbox.check_for_systemd() → bool

Checks whether systemd library is available and the current process is run under systemd (and thus its output is connected to journald).

systemdlogging.toolbox.init_systemd_logging(*, logger: Optional[logging.Logger] = None, syslog_id: str = '') → bool

Initializes logging to send log messages to systemd.

Returns boolean indicating initialization went fine (see also check_for_systemd()).

If it wasn’t one may either to fallback to another logging handler or leave it as it is possibly sacrificing some log context.

Parameters:
  • logger – Logger to attach systemd logging handler to. If not set handler is attached to a root logger.
  • syslog_id – Value to be used in SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER message field.
systemdlogging.toolbox.log_message(*, level: int, msg: str, context: Optional[dict] = None) → bool

Sends a message to systemd.

Warning

Low level function. You may want to use more convenient init_systemd_logging() or SystemdHandler and SystemdFormatter.

Natively supported fields:
http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.journal-fields.html
Parameters:
  • level – Logging level.
  • msg – Message text to send.
  • context – Additional context to send within message.