Logs Python API Overview

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Overview

The Logs API provides access to the application and request logs for your application. (You can also access the logs for your application in the UI by clicking Logs in the left navigation pane in the Admin Console .)

Important: Be aware that logs by default do not persist when you use the development app server. For information on how to make logs persist, see The development server and Logs API .

Log categories: request logs and app logs

There are two categories of log data: request logs and application logs. A request log is written for each request handled by your app, and contains information such as the app ID, HTTP version, and so forth. For a complete list of available properties for request logs, see RequestLog .

Each request log contains a list of application logs ( AppLog ) associated with that request, returned in the RequestLog.app_logs property. Each app log contains the time the log was written, the log message, and the log level.

Getting log data

The general process of getting logs is as follows:

Use fetch() to return an iterator for the request logs.
In each iteration, process each RequestLog as desired.
Optionally, use RequestLog.app_logs to get the list of related AppLogs.
If you retrieved the app logs list, for each AppLogLine , process the AppLog property data as desired.

Sample code

The following sample displays 5 request logs at at time, along with their application logs. It lets you cycle through each set of 10 logs using a Next link.

import base64
import datetime
import logging
import time
import urllib
import webapp2
from google.appengine.api.logservice import logservice

# This sample gets the app request logs up to the current time, displays 5 logs
# at a time, including all AppLogs, with a Next link to let the user "page"
# through the results, using the RequestLog offset property.

class MainPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):
        logging.info('Starting Main handler')
        # Get the incoming offset param from the Next link to advance through
        # the logs. (The first time the page is loaded, there won't be any offset.)
        try:
            offset = self.request.get('offset') or None
            if offset:
                offset = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(str(offset))
        except TypeError:
            offset = None

        # Set up end time for our query.
        end_time = time.time()

        # Count specifies the max number of RequestLogs shown at one time.
        # Use a boolean to initially turn off visiblity of the "Next" link.
        count = 5
        show_next = False
        last_offset = None

        # Iterate through all the RequestLog objects, displaying some fields and
        # iterate through all AppLogs beloging to each RequestLog count times.
        # In each iteration, save the offset to last_offset; the last one when
        # count is reached will be used for the link.
        i = 0
        for req_log in logservice.fetch(end_time=end_time, offset=offset,
                                        minimum_log_level=logservice.LOG_LEVEL_INFO,
                                        include_app_logs=True):
            self.response.out.write('<br /> REQUEST LOG <br />')
            self.response.out.write(
                'IP: %s <br /> Method: %s <br /> Resource: %s <br />' %
                (req_log.ip, req_log.method, req_log.resource))
            self.response.out.write(
                'Date: %s<br />' %
                datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(req_log.end_time).strftime('%D %T UTC'))

            last_offset= req_log.offset
            i += 1

            for app_log in req_log.app_logs:
                self.response.out.write('<br />APP LOG<br />')
                self.response.out.write(
                    'Date: %s<br />' %
                    datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(app_log.time).strftime('%D %T UTC'))
                self.response.out.write('<br />Message: %s<br />' % app_log.message)

            if i >= count:
                show_next = True
                break

        # Prepare the offset URL parameters, if any.
        if show_next:
            query = self.request.GET
            query['offset'] = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(last_offset)
            next_link = urllib.urlencode(query)
            self.response.out.write('<a href="/?%s">Next</a>' % next_link)

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage)], debug=True)

In the sample, notice that the GET handler expects to be re-invoked by the user clicking on the Next link, and so it extracts the offset param, if present. That offset is used in the subsequent re-invocation of logservice.fetch() to "page through" each group of 5 request logs. There is nothing special about the number 5; it can be anything you want.

Quotas and limits

Your application is affected by the following logs-related quotas :

Logs data retrieved via the Logs API.
Log storage, also called logs retention .

Quota for data retrieved

The first 100 megabytes of logs data retrieved per day via the Logs API calls are free. After this amount is exceeded, no further Logs API calls will succeed unless billing is enabled for your app. If billing is enabled for your app, data in excess of 100 megabytes results in charges of $0.12/GB.

Logs storage

You can control how much log data your application stores by means of its log retention settings in the Admin Console . By default, logs are stored for an application free of charge with the following per-application limits: a maximum of 1 gigabyte for a maximum of up to 90 days. If either limit is exceeded, more recent logs will be shown and older logs will be deleted to stay within the size limit. Logs older than the maximum retention time are also deleted.

If your app has billing enabled, you can pay for higher log size limits by specifying the desired maximum log size in gigabytes in the Admin Console . You can also set the retention time by specifying the desired number of days to keep logs, up to a maximum of 365 days. The cost of this extra log storage is $0.026 per gigabyte utilized per month.

Limit	Amount	Cost past free threshold
Maximum days storage per log	90 days free, 365 days if paid	$0.026 per gigabyte utilized per month
Maximum total logs storage	1 gigabyte free, unlimited if paid	$0.026 per gigabyte utilized per month

The development server and Logs API

By default, logs are stored in memory only in the development server and are accessible if you wish to test the Logs API feature. If you wish to persist logs from the development server to disk at the default location /tmp/dev_appserver.logs , supply the --persist_logs command line option as follows:

dev_appserver.py --persist_logs your-app-directory

If you wish to persist the logs from the development server to disk at a location of your own choosing, supply the desired path and filename to the --logs_path command line option as follows:

dev_appserver.py --logs_path=your-path/your-logfile-name your-app-directory

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Last updated July 11, 2014.

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