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# spdlog

Very fast, header-only/compiled, C++ logging library. [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/gabime/spdlog.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/gabime/spdlog)  [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/d2jnxclg20vd0o50?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gabime/spdlog)



## Install 
#### Header only version
Copy the source [folder](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/tree/v1.x/include/spdlog) to your build tree and use a C++11 compiler.

#### Static lib version (recommended - much faster compile times, v1.4.0)
```console
$ git clone https://github.com/gabime/spdlog.git
$ cd spdlog && mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. && make -j
```
      
   see example [CMakeLists.txt](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/blob/v1.x/example/CMakeLists.txt) on how to use.

## Platforms
 * Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX
 * Windows (msvc 2013+, cygwin)
 * macOS (clang 3.5+)
 * Android

## Package managers:
* Homebrew: `brew install spdlog`
* FreeBSD:  `cd /usr/ports/devel/spdlog/ && make install clean`
* Fedora: `yum install spdlog`
* Gentoo: `emerge dev-libs/spdlog`
* Arch Linux: `yaourt -S spdlog-git`
* vcpkg: `vcpkg install spdlog`

## Features
* Very fast (see [benchmarks](#benchmarks) below).
* Headers only, just copy and use. Or use as a compiled library.
* Feature rich formatting, using the excellent [fmt](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt) library.
* **New!** [Backtrace](#backtrace-support) support - store debug or other messages in a ring buffer and display later on demand.
* Fast asynchronous mode (optional)
* [Custom](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/wiki/3.-Custom-formatting) formatting.
* Multi/Single threaded loggers.
* Various log targets:
    * Rotating log files.
    * Daily log files.
    * Console logging (colors supported).
    * syslog.
    * Windows debugger (```OutputDebugString(..)```)
    * Easily extendable with custom log targets  (just implement a single function in the [sink](include/spdlog/sinks/sink.h) interface).
* Severity based filtering - threshold levels can be modified in runtime as well as in compile time.

 
## Usage samples

#### Basic usage
```c++
#include "spdlog/spdlog.h"
#include "spdlog/sinks/basic_file_sink.h"

int main() 
{
    spdlog::info("Welcome to spdlog!");
    spdlog::error("Some error message with arg: {}", 1);
    
    spdlog::warn("Easy padding in numbers like {:08d}", 12);
    spdlog::critical("Support for int: {0:d};  hex: {0:x};  oct: {0:o}; bin: {0:b}", 42);
    spdlog::info("Support for floats {:03.2f}", 1.23456);
    spdlog::info("Positional args are {1} {0}..", "too", "supported");
    spdlog::info("{:<30}", "left aligned");
    
    spdlog::set_level(spdlog::level::debug); // Set global log level to debug
    spdlog::debug("This message should be displayed..");    
    
    // change log pattern
    spdlog::set_pattern("[%H:%M:%S %z] [%n] [%^---%L---%$] [thread %t] %v");
    
    // Compile time log levels
    // define SPDLOG_ACTIVE_LEVEL to desired level
    SPDLOG_TRACE("Some trace message with param {}", {});
    SPDLOG_DEBUG("Some debug message");
    
    // Set the default logger to file logger
    auto file_logger = spdlog::basic_logger_mt("basic_logger", "logs/basic.txt");
    spdlog::set_default_logger(file_logger);            
}
```
#### create stdout/stderr logger object
```c++
#include "spdlog/spdlog.h"
#include "spdlog/sinks/stdout_color_sinks.h"
void stdout_example()
{
    // create color multi threaded logger
    auto console = spdlog::stdout_color_mt("console");    
    auto err_logger = spdlog::stderr_color_mt("stderr");    
    spdlog::get("console")->info("loggers can be retrieved from a global registry using the spdlog::get(logger_name)");
}
```
---
#### Basic file logger
```c++
#include "spdlog/sinks/basic_file_sink.h"
void basic_logfile_example()
{
    try 
    {
        auto my_logger = spdlog::basic_logger_mt("basic_logger", "logs/basic-log.txt");
    }
    catch (const spdlog::spdlog_ex &ex)
    {
        std::cout << "Log init failed: " << ex.what() << std::endl;
    }
}
```
---
#### Rotating files
```c++
#include "spdlog/sinks/rotating_file_sink.h"
void rotating_example()
{
    // Create a file rotating logger with 5mb size max and 3 rotated files
    auto rotating_logger = spdlog::rotating_logger_mt("some_logger_name", "logs/rotating.txt", 1048576 * 5, 3);
}
```

---
#### Daily files
```c++

#include "spdlog/sinks/daily_file_sink.h"
void daily_example()
{
    // Create a daily logger - a new file is created every day on 2:30am
    auto daily_logger = spdlog::daily_logger_mt("daily_logger", "logs/daily.txt", 2, 30);
}

```

---
#### Backtrace support
```c++
// Loggers can store in a ring buffer all messages (including debug/trace) and display later on demand.
// When needed, call dump_backtrace() to see them
spdlog::enable_backtrace(32); // create ring buffer with capacity of 32  messages
// or my_logger->enable_backtrace(32)..
for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
  spdlog::debug("Backtrace message {}", i); // not logged yet..
}
// e.g. if some error happened:
spdlog::dump_backtrace(); // log them now! show the last 32 messages

// or my_logger->dump_backtrace(32)..
```

---
#### Periodic flush
```c++
// periodically flush all *registered* loggers every 3 seconds:
// warning: only use if all your loggers are thread safe!
spdlog::flush_every(std::chrono::seconds(3));

```

---
#### Log binary data in hex
```c++
// many types of std::container<char> types can be used.
// ranges are supported too.
// format flags:
// {:X} - print in uppercase.
// {:s} - don't separate each byte with space.
// {:p} - don't print the position on each line start.
// {:n} - don't split the output to lines.

#include "spdlog/fmt/bin_to_hex.h"

void binary_example()
{
    auto console = spdlog::get("console");
    std::array<char, 80> buf;
    console->info("Binary example: {}", spdlog::to_hex(buf));
    console->info("Another binary example:{:n}", spdlog::to_hex(std::begin(buf), std::begin(buf) + 10));
    // more examples:
    // logger->info("uppercase: {:X}", spdlog::to_hex(buf));
    // logger->info("uppercase, no delimiters: {:Xs}", spdlog::to_hex(buf));
    // logger->info("uppercase, no delimiters, no position info: {:Xsp}", spdlog::to_hex(buf));
}

```

---
#### Logger with multi sinks - each with different format and log level
```c++

// create logger with 2 targets with different log levels and formats.
// the console will show only warnings or errors, while the file will log all.
void multi_sink_example()
{
    auto console_sink = std::make_shared<spdlog::sinks::stdout_color_sink_mt>();
    console_sink->set_level(spdlog::level::warn);
    console_sink->set_pattern("[multi_sink_example] [%^%l%$] %v");

    auto file_sink = std::make_shared<spdlog::sinks::basic_file_sink_mt>("logs/multisink.txt", true);
    file_sink->set_level(spdlog::level::trace);

    spdlog::logger logger("multi_sink", {console_sink, file_sink});
    logger.set_level(spdlog::level::debug);
    logger.warn("this should appear in both console and file");
    logger.info("this message should not appear in the console, only in the file");
}
```

---
#### Asynchronous logging
```c++
#include "spdlog/async.h"
#include "spdlog/sinks/basic_file_sink.h"
void async_example()
{
    // default thread pool settings can be modified *before* creating the async logger:
    // spdlog::init_thread_pool(8192, 1); // queue with 8k items and 1 backing thread.
    auto async_file = spdlog::basic_logger_mt<spdlog::async_factory>("async_file_logger", "logs/async_log.txt");
    // alternatively:
    // auto async_file = spdlog::create_async<spdlog::sinks::basic_file_sink_mt>("async_file_logger", "logs/async_log.txt");   
}

```

---
#### Asynchronous logger with multi sinks  
```c++
#include "spdlog/sinks/stdout_color_sinks.h"
#include "spdlog/sinks/rotating_file_sink.h"

void multi_sink_example2()
{
    spdlog::init_thread_pool(8192, 1);
    auto stdout_sink = std::make_shared<spdlog::sinks::stdout_color_sink_mt >();
    auto rotating_sink = std::make_shared<spdlog::sinks::rotating_file_sink_mt>("mylog.txt", 1024*1024*10, 3);
    std::vector<spdlog::sink_ptr> sinks {stdout_sink, rotating_sink};
    auto logger = std::make_shared<spdlog::async_logger>("loggername", sinks.begin(), sinks.end(), spdlog::thread_pool(), spdlog::async_overflow_policy::block);
    spdlog::register_logger(logger);
}
```
 
---
#### User defined types
```c++
// user defined types logging by implementing operator<<
#include "spdlog/fmt/ostr.h" // must be included
struct my_type
{
    int i;
    template<typename OStream>
    friend OStream &operator<<(OStream &os, const my_type &c)
    {
        return os << "[my_type i=" << c.i << "]";
    }
};

void user_defined_example()
{
    spdlog::get("console")->info("user defined type: {}", my_type{14});
}

```
---
#### Custom error handler
```c++
void err_handler_example()
{
    // can be set globally or per logger(logger->set_error_handler(..))
    spdlog::set_error_handler([](const std::string &msg) { spdlog::get("console")->error("*** LOGGER ERROR ***: {}", msg); });
    spdlog::get("console")->info("some invalid message to trigger an error {}{}{}{}", 3);
}

```
---
#### syslog 
```c++
#include "spdlog/sinks/syslog_sink.h"
void syslog_example()
{
    std::string ident = "spdlog-example";
    auto syslog_logger = spdlog::syslog_logger_mt("syslog", ident, LOG_PID);
    syslog_logger->warn("This is warning that will end up in syslog.");
}
```
---
#### Android example 
```c++
#include "spdlog/sinks/android_sink.h"
void android_example()
{
    std::string tag = "spdlog-android";
    auto android_logger = spdlog::android_logger_mt("android", tag);
    android_logger->critical("Use \"adb shell logcat\" to view this message.");
}
```

## Benchmarks

Below are some [benchmarks](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/blob/v1.x/bench/bench.cpp) done in Ubuntu 64 bit, Intel i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

#### Synchronous mode
```
[info] **************************************************************
[info] Single thread, 1,000,000 iterations
[info] **************************************************************
[info] basic_st         Elapsed: 0.17 secs        5,777,626/sec
[info] rotating_st      Elapsed: 0.18 secs        5,475,894/sec
[info] daily_st         Elapsed: 0.20 secs        5,062,659/sec
[info] empty_logger     Elapsed: 0.07 secs       14,127,300/sec
[info] **************************************************************
[info] C-string (400 bytes). Single thread, 1,000,000 iterations
[info] **************************************************************
[info] basic_st         Elapsed: 0.41 secs        2,412,483/sec
[info] rotating_st      Elapsed: 0.72 secs        1,389,196/sec
[info] daily_st         Elapsed: 0.42 secs        2,393,298/sec
[info] null_st          Elapsed: 0.04 secs       27,446,957/sec
[info] **************************************************************
[info] 10 threads sharing same logger, 1,000,000 iterations
[info] **************************************************************
[info] basic_mt         Elapsed: 0.60 secs        1,659,613/sec
[info] rotating_mt      Elapsed: 0.62 secs        1,612,493/sec
[info] daily_mt         Elapsed: 0.61 secs        1,638,305/sec
[info] null_mt          Elapsed: 0.16 secs        6,272,758/sec
```
#### ASynchronous mode
```
[info] -------------------------------------------------
[info] Messages     : 1,000,000
[info] Threads      : 10
[info] Queue        : 8,192 slots
[info] Queue memory : 8,192 x 272 = 2,176 KB 
[info] Total iters  : 3
[info] -------------------------------------------------
[info] 
[info] *********************************
[info] Queue Overflow Policy: block
[info] *********************************
[info] Elapsed: 1.70784 secs     585,535/sec
[info] Elapsed: 1.69805 secs     588,910/sec
[info] Elapsed: 1.7026 secs      587,337/sec
[info] 
[info] *********************************
[info] Queue Overflow Policy: overrun
[info] *********************************
[info] Elapsed: 0.372816 secs    2,682,285/sec
[info] Elapsed: 0.379758 secs    2,633,255/sec
[info] Elapsed: 0.373532 secs    2,677,147/sec

```

## Documentation
Documentation can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/wiki/1.-QuickStart) pages.