Pitcher

Pitcher is an Elixir Logger backend used to send logs to a custom REST endpoint.

Options

• url: The URL, including protocol, domain, port and path to send the logs
• method: An atom used to denote the method to use (:post, :put, :get etc.)
• opts: A list of options as per the HTTPoison dependency
• headers: A list of headers as per the HTTPoison dependency
• format: The logging format of the message. (defaults to [$level] $message\n)
• level: The minimum level to log. (defaults to :debug)
• metadata: Additional fields to be sent to the logs. These are merged with the default metadata
• metadata_filter: Sends only those metadata fields that are in the filter (all are sent if filter is not set)

Installation

Simply add to your mix.exs file as a dependency:

def deps do
  [{:pitcher_logger_backend, "~> 0.0.1"}]
end

Then run mix deps.get to install it.

Configuration

config :logger,
  backends: [{Logger.Backend.Pitcher, :my_error_log}, :console]

config :logger, :my_error_log,
  url: "https://mydomain.com/logs",
  method: :put,
  level: :error,
  format: "[$level] $message\n"