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
• 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.
• Optional printf syntax support.
• Extremely fast asynchronous mode (optional) - using lockfree queues and other tricks to reach millions of calls/sec.
• 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 comparing popular log libraries under Ubuntu 64 bit, Intel i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Synchronous mode

Time needed to log 1,000,000 lines in synchronous mode (in seconds, the best of 3 runs):

threads	boost log 1.54	glog	easylogging	spdlog
1	4.169s	1.066s	0.975s	0.302s
10	6.180s	3.032s	2.857s	0.968s
100	5.981s	1.139s	4.512s	0.497s

Asynchronous mode

Time needed to log 1,000,000 lines in asynchronous mode, i.e. the time it takes to put them in the async queue (in seconds, the best of 3 runs):

threads	g2log async logger	spdlog async mode
1	1.850s	0.216s
10	0.943s	0.173s
100	0.959s	0.202s

Usage Example

#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);
}

#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;
    }
}

#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);
}

#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);
}

#include "spdlog/async.h"
void async_example()
{
    // default thread pool settings can be modified *before* creating the async logger:
    // spdlog::init_thread_pool(32768, 1); // queue with max 32k items 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");

    for (int i = 1; i < 101; ++i)
    {
        async_file->info("Async message #{}", i);
    }
}

// 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 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 example (linux/osx/freebsd)
#ifndef _WIN32
#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.");
}
#endif

// Android example
#if defined(__ANDROID__)
#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.");
}

#endif

Documentation

Documentation can be found in the wiki pages.