Expose configuration options for logging

[angrybrad]

Created by: Russ Back ([email protected]) on 2015/03/24 08:31:58 +0000
Votes at time of UserVoice import: 2

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We’ve found and issue when using https://papertrailapp.com/ monitoring on the runtime logs for Craft in that Yii’s log rotate policy works in a way that prevents Papertrail (or rather the underlying remote_syslog2 service) from detecting when logs are rotated. Basically it means that when the logs are rotated the monitoring falls off.

I’ve looked into the code and spoken to their support team and enabling rotateByCopy should fix the issue:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CFileLogRoute
https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/blob/1.1.16/framework/logging/CFileLogRoute.php#L171

I’ve done this by making the change below in bold to Craft’s FileLogRoute class:

public function init()
{
$this->setLogPath(craft()->path->getLogPath());
$this->rotateByCopy = craft()->config->get('rotateLogFilesByCopy') ? true : false;

$this->levels = craft()->config->get('devMode') ? '' : 'error,warning';
$this->filter = craft()->config->get('devMode') ? 'Craft\LogFilter' : null;

parent::init();
}

This enables us to set that property in Craft’s general config.

Could this be rolled into a future release so that we’re not overwriting the core?