# Logging Cookbook — Sending and receiving logging events across a network

> Let's say you want to send logging events across a network, and handle them at the receiving end.

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Let's say you want to send logging events across a network, and handle them at the receiving end. A simple way of doing this is attaching a SocketHandler instance to the root logger at the sending end

import logging, logging.handlers

rootLogger = logging.getLogger() rootLogger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) socketHandler = logging.handlers.SocketHandler('localhost', logging.handlers.DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT) # don't bother with a formatter, since a socket handler sends the event as # an unformatted pickle rootLogger.addHandler(socketHandler)

# Now, we can log to the root logger, or any other logger. First the root... logging.info('Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.')

# Now, define a couple of other loggers which might represent areas in your # application

logger1 = logging.getLogger('myapp.area1') logger2 = logging.getLogger('myapp.area2')

logger1.debug('Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.') logger1.info('How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.') logger2.warning('Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.') logger2.error('The five boxing wizards jump quickly.')

At the receiving end, you can set up a receiver using the socketserver module. Here is a basic working example

import pickle import logging import logging.handlers import socketserver import struct

class LogRecordStreamHandler(socketserver.StreamRequestHandler): """Handler for a streaming logging request.

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