Logging Setup

Logging Setup is used to integrate the Go Agent with the logging system in the current service. It currently supports the recognition of Logrus and Zap frameworks. If neither of these frameworks is present, it would output logs using Std Error.

You can learn about the configuration details through the “log” configuration item in the default settings.

Logging Detection

Log detection means that the logging plugin would automatically detect the usage of logs in your application. When the log type is set to auto, it would choose the appropriate log based on the creation rules of different frameworks. The selection rules vary depending on the framework:

  1. Logrus: It automatically selects the current logger when executing functions such as logrus.New, logger.SetOutput, or logger.SetFormatter.
  2. Zap: It automatically selects the current logger when executing functions such as zap.New, zap.NewNop, zap.NewProduction, zap.NewDevelopment, or zap.NewExample.

If there are multiple different logging systems in your current application, the last-called logging system would be chosen.

The configuration information is as follows:

Name Environment Key Default Value Description
log.type SW_LOG_TYPE auto The type of logging system. It currently supports auto, logrus, zap, and std.

Agent with Logging system

The integration of the Agent with logs includes the two parts as following.

  1. Integrating Agent logs into the Service: Integrating the logs from the Agent into the framework used by the service.
  2. Integrating Tracing information into the Service: Integrating the information from Tracing into the service logs.

Agent logs into the Service

Agent logs output the current running status of the Agent system, most of which are execution exceptions. For example, communication anomalies between the Agent and the backend service, plugin execution exceptions, etc.

Integrating Agent logs into the service’s logging system can effectively help users quickly troubleshoot whether there are issues with the current Agent execution.

Tracing information into the Service

The Agent would also enhance the existing logging system. When the service outputs log, if the current goroutine contains Tracing data, it would be outputted together with the current logs. This helps users to quickly locate the link based on the Tracing data.

Tracing data

The Tracing includes the following information:

  1. ServiceName: Current service name.
  2. ServiceInstanceName: Current service instance name.
  3. TraceID: The current Trace ID. If there is no link, it outputs N/A.
  4. SegmentID: The Segment ID in the current Trace. If there is no link, it outputs N/A.
  5. SpanID: The Span ID currently being operated on. If there is no link, it outputs -1.

The output format is as follows: [${ServiceName},${ServiceInstanceName},${TraceID},${SegmentID},${SpanID}].

The following is an example of a log output when using Zap.NewProduction:

{"level":"info","ts":1683641507.052247,"caller":"gin/main.go:45","msg":"test log","SW_CTX":"[Your_ApplicationName,681e4178ee7311ed864facde48001122@192.168.50.193,6f13069eee7311ed864facde48001122,6f13070cee7311ed864facde48001122,0]"}

The configuration information is as follows:

Name Environment Key Default Value Description
log.tracing.enable SW_AGENT_LOG_TRACING_ENABLE true Whether to automatically integrate Tracing information into the logs.
log.tracing.key SW_AGENT_LOG_TRACING_KEY SW_CTX The key of the Tracing information in the log.

Log Upload

The Agent would report the following two types of logs to the SkyWalking backend for storage and querying:

  1. Application Logs: It provides support for various logging frameworks and reports logs along with the corresponding distributed tracing information related to the current request. Only the relevant logs matching the current system log level would be output.
  2. Agent Logs: These are the logs generated by the Agent itself.

The current configuration options available are as follows:

Name Environment Key Default Value Description
log.reporter.enable SW_LOG_REPORTER_ENABLE true Whether to enable log reporting.
log.reporter.label_keys SW_LOG_REPORTER_LABEL_KEYS By default, all fields are not reported. To specify the fields that need to be reported, please provide a comma-separated list of configuration item keys.