Logging to syslog / Developer Loggers plugin

Resolved Mikael Jokela
(@mikael-jokela)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hello,

I’m looking for a solution to log to syslog (or some other external file/database). I found the Developer Loggers plugin that should have this feature and extends the functionality of the the Simple History plugin. But the Developer Loggers plugin has not been updated for a couple of years and has an early version number.

So I’m asking whether it is wise to start using the Developer Loggers plugin or is there a better supported way to log to syslog or other external target?

Thank you for your help!

Best wishes,
Mikael

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Plugin Author

(@eskapism)

The plugin should still be fine, I’m using it a a couple of places.

It’s pretty easy to log to error log or syslog using a simple filter too, so you may use this instead if you want to (add it to your functions.php-file or similar):


add_filter("simple_history/log_insert_context", "logEventsToSyslog", 10, 3);

function logEventsToSyslog($context, $data, $logger)
{
    $remote_addr = empty($context["_server_remote_addr"]) ? "" : $context["_server_remote_addr"];
    $level = empty($data["level"]) ? "" : $data["level"];
    $user_login = empty($context["_user_login"]) ? "" : $context["_user_login"];
    $message = $logger->interpolate($data["message"], $context);

    $log_message = sprintf(
        'WordPress Simple History: %1$s %2$s %3$s %4$s',
        $remote_addr, // 1
        $level, // 2
        $user_login, // 3
        $message // 4
    );

    error_log($log_message);
    syslog(LOG_INFO, $log_message);

    return $context;
}

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