Logging

Warning

Do NOT print. I’m gonna say it again: Do. Not. Print. Or, at least, do not print until you want to crash your topology. The mechanism Storm uses to communicate with Python is based on stdin/stdout communication, so you are not allowed to use them.

You can use Python logging module for getting useuful information out of your running topology. It is extremely useful while debugging your application, since pyleus can automatically log any exception occured in the log you setup.

You can configure logging separately for each component in your topology, as many of the examples in the pyleus repo do. However, you can always specify a topology level configuration file as showed in the next section.

Topology level configuration

Pyleus will look for a file named pyleus_logging.conf in the directory where your topology definition YAML file is and use it if present. You can specify a different file with the YAML logging_config option, or set it to null if pyleus_logging.conf is present but you do not want pyleus to use it.

name: logging_topology

logging_config: my_logging.conf

You can find an example topology using logging on GitHub.