logit

logit

logit: Simple Golang logging/slog library

• Features
• TL;DR
• References
• Others

Features

• No dependencies
• Fluent configuration (one line)
  • Simple and easy
  • Compact
• Extra log levels
  • Usual: debug, info, warn, error
  • Added: trace, notice, fatal, panic
• Color support
• slog based so it requires Golang 1.21+
• slog.Logger + slog.Handler compatible
• Opinionated

TL;DR

Init module within an empty folder:

$ go mod init example.com/demo

$ cat go.mod 
module example.com/demo

go 1.24.5

Download/install logit:

$ go get -u github.com/sfmunoz/logit

Create main.go file:

package main

import "github.com/sfmunoz/logit"

var log = logit.Logit().
	WithLevel(logit.LevelNotice).
	With("app", "my-app")

func main() {
	log.Trace("trace-msg")
	log.Debug("debug-msg")
	log.Info("info-msg")
	log.Notice("notice-msg")
	log.Warn("warn-msg")
	log.Error("error-msg")
}

Run it using go run main.go:

Detailed configuration:

package main

import (
	"os"

	"github.com/sfmunoz/logit"
)

var log = logit.Logit().
	With("app", "my-app").
	WithWriter(os.Stderr).
	WithTpl(logit.TplTime, logit.TplUptime, logit.TplLevel, logit.TplSource, logit.TplMessage, logit.TplAttrs).
	WithLevel(logit.LevelDebug).
	WithTimeFormat("2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00").
	WithColor(true)

func main() {
	log.Info("hello world")
}

Run it too with go run main.go:

References

$ go doc slog
(...)
For a guide to writing a custom handler, see https://golang.org/s/slog-handler-guide
(...)

[!TIP] So the must reading guide is the following one:
https://golang.org/s/slog-handler-guide → https://github.com/golang/example/blob/master/slog-handler-guide/README.md

There are 4 versions of the indenthandler example in the README.md:

https://github.com/golang/example/tree/master/slog-handler-guide

Google: 'golang slog'

• https://go.dev/blog/slog
• https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slog

slog related videos:

• A consistent logging format for Go
• Golang: Structured Logging using slog

Others

Google: 'golang slog color'

• https://github.com/lmittmann/tint
• https://dusted.codes/creating-a-pretty-console-logger-using-gos-slog-package

Google: 'golang log packages'

• https://betterstack.com/community/guides/logging/best-golang-logging-libraries/
• https://blog.logrocket.com/5-structured-logging-packages-for-go/
• https://www.highlight.io/blog/5-best-logging-libraries-for-go

zap & zerolog:

• https://github.com/uber-go/zap
• https://github.com/rs/zerolog