How to Define a Custom Logging Formatter

Each logging handler uses a Formatter to format the record before logging it. All Monolog handlers use an instance of Monolog\Formatter\LineFormatter by default but you can replace it easily. Your formatter must implement Monolog\Formatter\FormatterInterface.

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        # app/config/config.yml
services:
    my_formatter:
        class: Monolog\Formatter\JsonFormatter
monolog:
    handlers:
        file:
            type: stream
            level: debug
            formatter: my_formatter
    

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        <!-- app/config/config.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:monolog="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/monolog"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/monolog
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/monolog/monolog-1.0.xsd">

    <services>
        <service id="my_formatter" class="Monolog\Formatter\JsonFormatter" />
    </services>

    <monolog:config>
        <monolog:handler
            name="file"
            type="stream"
            level="debug"
            formatter="my_formatter"
        />
    </monolog:config>
</container>
    

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        // app/config/config.php
use Monolog\Formatter\JsonFormatter;

$container->register('my_formatter', JsonFormatter::class);

$container->loadFromExtension('monolog', array(
    'handlers' => array(
        'file' => array(
            'type'      => 'stream',
            'level'     => 'debug',
            'formatter' => 'my_formatter',
        ),
    ),
));
    

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How to Define a Custom Logging Formatter

How to Define a Custom Logging Formatter

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