LoggerPro for Delphi

An modern and pluggable logging framework for Delphi

Compatibility

LoggerPro is compatibile with

• Delphi XE2
• Delphi XE3
• Delphi XE4
• Delphi XE5
• Delphi XE6
• Delphi XE7
• Delphi XE8
• Delphi 10 Seattle
• Delphi 10.1 Berlin
• Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Linux compatibility)

Getting started

program getting_started_console;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  System.SysUtils,
  LoggerPro.GlobalLogger; //this is the global logger, it is perfect to understand the basic operation of LoggerPro.

begin
  try
    //the global logger uses a TLoggerProFileAppender, so your logs will be written on a 
    //set of files with automatic rolling/rotating
    
    Log.Debug('Debug message', 'main'); //TLoggerProFileAppender uses the "tag" to select a different log file
    Log.Info('Info message', 'main');
    Log.Warn('Warning message', 'main');
    Log.Error('Error message', 'errors');
    WriteLn('Check "getting_started_console.00.main.log" and "getting_started_console.00.errors.log" to see your logs');
    ReadLn;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      Writeln(E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

end.

The most flexible/correct approach is not much complicated than the global logger one. Check how is simple to create a custom instance of logwriter

program getting_started_console_appenders;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  System.SysUtils,
  LoggerPro, //LoggerPro core
  LoggerPro.FileAppender, //File appender
  LoggerPro.OutputDebugStringAppender; //OutputDebugString appender

var
  Log: ILogWriter;

begin
  Log := BuildLogWriter([TLoggerProFileAppender.Create,
    TLoggerProOutputDebugStringAppender.Create]);

  try
    Log.Debug('Debug message', 'main');
    Log.Info('Info message', 'main');
    Log.Warn('Warning message', 'main');
    Log.Error('Error message', 'errors');
    WriteLn('Check ');
    WriteLn('  "getting_started_console.00.main.log"');
    WriteLn('  "getting_started_console.00.errors.log"');

    if DebugHook <> 0 then //inform the user where his/her logs are
    begin
      WriteLn('also, you logs have been sent to the current debugger, check the Delphi''s EventLog window to see them.');
    end
    else
    begin
      WriteLn('..seems that no debugger is present. The logs can be seen using DebugView.');
      WriteLn('Download it from here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/debugview.aspx');
      WriteLn('Learn how to use http://tedgustaf.com/blog/2011/5/use-debugview-to-view-debug-output-from-asp-net-web-application/');
    end;
    ReadLn;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn(E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

end.

Built-in log appenders

The framework contains the following built-in log appenders

• File (TLoggerProFileAppender) (v1.0.x+)
• Console (TLoggerProConsoleAppender) (v1.0.x+)
• OutputDebugString (TLoggerProOutputDebugStringAppender) (v1.0.x+)
• VCL Memo (TVCLMemoLogAppender) (v1.0.x+)
• VCL ListView (TVCLMemoLogAppender) -- thanks to https://github.com/he3p94uu (v1.3.x+)
• Redis Appender with LogsViewer(to aggregate logs from different instances on a single Redis instance) (v1.2.x+)
• Email Logger (to send email as log, very useful for fatal errors) (v1.2.x+)
• SysLog Logger (RFC 5424 compliant) -- thanks to https://github.com/nurettin (v1.3.x+)

Next appenders in the development pipeline

• RESTful Appender (to send logs to a rest endpoint using a specific request format, so that you can implement log server in DelphiMVCFramework, PHP, Java, Python, Node etc)
• Twitter Appender (to send logs to a Twitter Account)
• Database appender (to send logs to a database table using FireDAC components -- Thank You Omar Bossoni)

The log writers and all the appenders are asycnhronous.

Check the samples to see how to use each appender or even combine different appenders.

Documentation

Documenation is available in the docs folder as HTML.

Other

You can install Delphinus package manager and install LoggerPro as a package there. (Delphinus-Support)