spdlog

Very fast, header only, C++ logging library.  

Install

Just copy the headers:

• Copy the source folder to your build tree and use a C++11 compiler.

Or use your favorite package manager:

• Ubuntu: apt-get install libspdlog-dev
• 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

Platforms

• Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
• Windows (vc 2013+, cygwin)
• Mac OSX (clang 3.5+)
• Android

Features

• Very fast - performance is the primary goal (see benchmarks below).
• Headers only, just copy and use.
• Feature rich call style using the excellent fmt library.
• Fast asynchronous mode (optional)
• Custom formatting.
• Conditional Logging
• 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 interface).
• Severity based filtering - threshold levels can be modified in runtime as well as in compile time.

Benchmarks

Below are some benchmarks done in Ubuntu 64 bit, Intel i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Synchronous mode

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Single thread, 1,000,000 iterations
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basic_st...		Elapsed: 0.231041	4,328,228/sec
rotating...             Elapsed: 0.233466	4,283,282/sec
daily_st...		Elapsed: 0.244491	4,090,136/sec
null_st...		Elapsed: 0.162708	6,145,995/sec

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10 threads sharing same logger, 1,000,000 iterations
*******************************************************************************
basic_mt...		Elapsed: 0.854029	1,170,920/sec
rotating_mt		Elapsed: 0.867038	1,153,351/sec
daily_mt...		Elapsed: 0.869593	1,149,963/sec
null_mt...		Elapsed: 0.171215	2,033,537/sec

Asynchronous mode

*******************************************************************************
10 threads sharing same logger, 1,000,000 iterations 
*******************************************************************************
async...		Elapsed: 0.442731	2,258,706/sec
async...		Elapsed: 0.427072	2,341,527/sec
async...		Elapsed: 0.449768	2,223,369/sec

Usage

Terminal logging

#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");
    console->info("Welcome to spdlog!");
    console->error("Some error message with arg: {}", 1);

    auto err_logger = spdlog::stderr_color_mt("stderr");
    err_logger->error("Some error message");

    // Formatting examples
    console->warn("Easy padding in numbers like {:08d}", 12);
    console->critical("Support for int: {0:d};  hex: {0:x};  oct: {0:o}; bin: {0:b}", 42);
    console->info("Support for floats {:03.2f}", 1.23456);
    console->info("Positional args are {1} {0}..", "too", "supported");
    console->info("{:<30}", "left aligned");

    spdlog::get("console")->info("loggers can be retrieved from a global registry using the spdlog::get(logger_name)");

    // Runtime log levels
    spdlog::set_level(spdlog::level::info); // Set global log level to info
    console->debug("This message should not be displayed!");
    console->set_level(spdlog::level::trace); // Set specific logger's log level
    console->debug("This message should be displayed..");

    // Customize msg format for all loggers
    spdlog::set_pattern("[%H:%M:%S %z] [%n] [%^---%L---%$] [thread %t] %v");
    console->info("This an info message with custom format");

    // Compile time log levels
    // define SPDLOG_DEBUG_ON or SPDLOG_TRACE_ON
    SPDLOG_TRACE(console, "Enabled only #ifdef SPDLOG_TRACE_ON..{} ,{}", 1, 3.23);
    SPDLOG_DEBUG(console, "Enabled only #ifdef SPDLOG_DEBUG_ON.. {} ,{}", 1, 3.23);
}

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Simple file logger

#include "spdlog/sinks/basic_file_sink.h"
void basic_logfile_example()
{
    // Create basic file logger (not rotated)
    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;
        return 1;
    }
}

---

Rotating files

#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

#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);
}

---

Asynchronous logging

#include "spdlog/async.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");   
}

---

Logger with multi targets - each with different format and log level

// 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");
}

---

User defined types

// 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

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

#include "spdlog/sinks/syslog_sink.h"
void syslog_example()
{
    std::string ident = "spdlog-example";
    auto syslog_logger = spdlog::syslog_logger("syslog", ident, LOG_PID);
    syslog_logger->warn("This is warning that will end up in syslog.");
}

---

Android example

#incude "spdlog/sinks/android_sink.h"
void android_example()
{
    std::string tag = "spdlog-android";
    auto android_logger = spdlog::android_logger("android", tag);
    android_logger->critical("Use \"adb shell logcat\" to view this message.");
}

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the wiki pages.