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Custom logging

Logging overview

Logs provide visibility into Magento system processes; for example, debugging information that assists you with understanding when an error occurred or what lead to the error.

This topic focuses on file-based logging, although Magento provides the flexibility to store logs in the database as well.

We recommend using centralized application logging for the following reasons:

  • It allows storage of logs on a server other than the application server and decreases disk I/O operations, simplifying support of the application server.

  • It makes processing of logs data more effective by using special tools without impact to a production server (for example, logstash, logplex, or fluentd).

Magento does not recommend or endorse any particular logging solution.

Magento PSR-3 compliance

The PSR-3 standard defines a common PHP interface for logging libraries. The main goal of PSR-3 is to allow libraries to receive a Psr\Log\LoggerInterface object and write logs to it in a simple and universal way.

This provides the ability for the implementation to be replaced easily without worry that such replacement may break the application code. It also guarantees a custom component will work even when the Magento log implementation is changed in a future version of the system.

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Magento logging in more detail

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