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🚨 Chi middleware for slog logger

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slog: Chi middleware

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Chi middleware to log http requests using slog.


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See also:

HTTP middlewares: Loggers: Log sinks:

🚀 Install

go get github.com/samber/slog-chi

Compatibility: go >= 1.21

No breaking changes will be made to exported APIs before v2.0.0.

💡 Usage

Handler options

type Config struct {
	DefaultLevel     slog.Level
	ClientErrorLevel slog.Level
	ServerErrorLevel slog.Level

WithUserAgent bool WithRequestID bool WithRequestBody bool WithRequestHeader bool WithResponseBody bool WithResponseHeader bool WithSpanID bool WithTraceID bool WithClientIP bool WithCustomMessage func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) string

Filters []Filter }

Attributes will be injected in log payload.

Other global parameters:

slogchi.TraceIDKey = "trace_id"
slogchi.SpanIDKey = "span_id"
slogchi.RequestIDKey = "id"
slogchi.RequestBodyMaxSize  = 64 * 1024 // 64KB
slogchi.ResponseBodyMaxSize = 64 * 1024 // 64KB
slogchi.HiddenRequestHeaders = map[string]struct{}{ ... }
slogchi.HiddenResponseHeaders = map[string]struct{}{ ... }

Minimal

import (
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"time"

"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5" "github.com/go-chi/chi/v5/middleware" slogchi "github.com/samber/slog-chi" "log/slog" )

// Create a slog logger, which: // - Logs to stdout. logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

// Chi instance router := chi.NewRouter()

// Middleware router.Use(slogchi.New(logger)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

// Routes router.GET("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Write([]byte("Hello, World!")) }) router.GET("/error", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { http.Error(w, http.StatusText(400), 400) })

// Start server err := http.ListenAndServe(":4242", router)

// output: // time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 level=INFO msg="200: OK" env=production request.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.626+02:00 request.method=GET request.path=/ request.route="" request.ip=127.0.0.1:63932 request.length=0 response.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 response.latency=100ms response.status=200 response.length=7 id=""

OTEL

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

config := slogchi.Config{ WithSpanID: true, WithTraceID: true, }

router := chi.NewRouter() router.Use(slogchi.NewWithConfig(logger, config)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

Custom log levels

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

config := slogchi.Config{ DefaultLevel: slog.LevelInfo, ClientErrorLevel: slog.LevelWarn, ServerErrorLevel: slog.LevelError, }

router := chi.NewRouter() router.Use(slogchi.NewWithConfig(logger, config)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

Verbose

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

config := slogchi.Config{ WithRequestBody: true, WithResponseBody: true, WithRequestHeader: true, WithResponseHeader: true, }

router := chi.NewRouter() router.Use(slogchi.NewWithConfig(logger, config)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

Filters

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

router := chi.NewRouter() router.Use( slogchi.NewWithFilters( logger, slogchi.Accept(func (ww middleware.WrapResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool { return xxx }), slogchi.IgnoreStatus(401, 404), ), ) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

Available filters:

  • Accept / Ignore
  • AcceptMethod / IgnoreMethod
  • AcceptStatus / IgnoreStatus
  • AcceptStatusGreaterThan / IgnoreStatusGreaterThan
  • AcceptStatusLessThan / IgnoreStatusLessThan
  • AcceptStatusGreaterThanOrEqual / IgnoreStatusGreaterThanOrEqual
  • AcceptStatusLessThanOrEqual / IgnoreStatusLessThanOrEqual
  • AcceptPath / IgnorePath
  • AcceptPathContains / IgnorePathContains
  • AcceptPathPrefix / IgnorePathPrefix
  • AcceptPathSuffix / IgnorePathSuffix
  • AcceptPathMatch / IgnorePathMatch
  • AcceptHost / IgnoreHost
  • AcceptHostContains / IgnoreHostContains
  • AcceptHostPrefix / IgnoreHostPrefix
  • AcceptHostSuffix / IgnoreHostSuffix
  • AcceptHostMatch / IgnoreHostMatch

Using custom time formatters

import (
	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5/middleware"
	slogchi "github.com/samber/slog-chi"
	slogformatter "github.com/samber/slog-formatter"
	"log/slog"
)

// Create a slog logger, which: // - Logs to stdout. // - RFC3339 with UTC time format. logger := slog.New( slogformatter.NewFormatterHandler( slogformatter.TimezoneConverter(time.UTC), slogformatter.TimeFormatter(time.DateTime, nil), )( slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil), ), )

// Chi instance router := chi.NewRouter()

// Middleware router.Use(slogchi.New(logger)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

// Routes router.GET("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Write([]byte("Hello, World!")) }) router.GET("/error", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { http.Error(w, http.StatusText(400), 400) })

// Start server err := http.ListenAndServe(":4242", router)

// output: // time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 level=INFO msg="200: OK" env=production request.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.626Z request.method=GET request.path=/ request.route="" request.ip=127.0.0.1:63932 request.length=0 response.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58Z response.latency=100ms response.status=200 response.length=7 id=""

Using custom logger sub-group

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

// Chi instance router := chi.NewRouter()

// Middleware router.Use(slogchi.New(logger.WithGroup("http"))) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

// Routes router.GET("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Write([]byte("Hello, World!")) }) router.GET("/error", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { http.Error(w, http.StatusText(400), 400) })

// Start server err := http.ListenAndServe(":4242", router)

// output: // time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 level=INFO msg="200: OK" env=production http.request.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.626+02:00 http.request.method=GET http.request.path=/ http.request.route="" http.request.ip=127.0.0.1:63932 http.request.length=0 http.response.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 http.response.latency=100ms http.response.status=200 http.response.length=7 http.id=""

Adding custom attributes

logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

// Add an attribute to all log entries made through this logger. logger = logger.With("env", "production")

// Chi instance router := chi.NewRouter()

// Middleware router.Use(slogchi.New(logger)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

// Routes router.GET("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { // Add an attribute to a single log entry. slogchi.AddCustomAttributes(r, slog.String("foo", "bar")) w.Write([]byte("Hello, World!")) })

// Start server err := http.ListenAndServe(":4242", router)

// output: // time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 level=INFO msg="200: OK" env=production request.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.626+02:00 request.method=GET request.path=/ request.route="" request.ip=127.0.0.1:63932 request.length=0 response.time=2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00 response.latency=100ms response.status=200 response.length=7 id="" foo=bar

JSON output

logger := slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

// Chi instance router := chi.NewRouter()

// Middleware router.Use(slogchi.New(logger)) router.Use(middleware.Recoverer)

// Routes router.GET("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.Write([]byte("Hello, World!")) })

// Start server err := http.ListenAndServe(":4242", router)

// output: // {"time":"2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"200: OK","env":"production","http":{"request":{"time":"2023-10-15T20:32:58.626+02:00","method":"GET","path":"/","route":"","ip":"127.0.0.1:55296","length":0},"response":{"time":"2023-10-15T20:32:58.926+02:00","latency":100000,"status":200,"length":7},"id":""}}

🤝 Contributing

Don't hesitate ;)
# Install some dev dependencies
make tools

Run tests

make test

or

make watch-test

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Copyright © 2023 Samuel Berthe.

This project is MIT licensed.

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