Eliot: Effective Logging with Itamar Turner-Trauring

Summary

Understanding what is happening in a software system can be difficult, especially when you have inconsistent log messages. Itamar Turner-Trauring created Eliot to make it possible for your project to tell you a story about how transactions flow through your program. In this week’s episode we go deep on proper logging practices, anti patterns, and how to improve your ability to debug your software with log messages.

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• Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Itamar Turner-Trauring about Eliot, a library for managing complex logs across multiple processes.

Interview

• Introductions
• How did you get introduced to Python?
• What is Eliot and what problem were you trying to solve by creating it?
• How is Eliot implemented and how has the design evolved since you first started working on it?
• Why is it so important to have a standardized format for your application logs?
• What are some of the anti-patterns that you consider to be the most harmful when developers are setting up logging in their projects?
• What have been the most challenging aspects of building and maintaining Eliot?
• How does Eliot compare to some of the other third party logging libraries available such as structlog or logbook?
• What are some of the improvements or additional features that you have planned for the future of Eliot?

Keep In Touch

• Website
• @itamarst on Twitter

Picks

• Tobias
  • Moonshot Podcast



• Itamar
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot

Links

• Eliot
• Zope
• PHP
• OpenTracing
• Zipkin
• Carl De Marcken
• Sentry
• Elasticsearch
• Logstash
• Kibana
• Eliot-Tree
• Daniel Lebrero
• Flocker
• Context Local Variables PEP (PEP 550)
• Flamegraph
• Brendan Gregg
• DAG
• Structlog

The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA