I am using AWS and use AWS cloudwatch to view logs. While things should not break on AWS, they could. I just had such a case. Then I searched for Traceback and just got the lines
Traceback (most recent call last):
without the actual traceback. I have a working structured logging setup (see other question) and I would like to get tracebacks in a similar way.
So instead of:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/math/Desktop/test.py", line 32, in <module>
adf
NameError: name 'adf' is not defined
something like
{"message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/home/math/Desktop/test.py\", line 32, in <module>\n adf\n NameError: name 'adf' is not defined", "lineno": 35, "pathname": "/home/math/Desktop/test.py"}
or even better also with the string in a JSON format.
The only way to achieve this I can think of is a giant try-except block. Pokemon-style. Is there a better solution?
You can use sys.excepthook. It is invoked whenever an exception occurs in your script.
import logging
import sys
import traceback
def exception_logging(exctype, value, tb):
"""
Log exception by using the root logger.
Parameters
----------
exctype : type
value : NameError
tb : traceback
"""
write_val = {'exception_type': str(exctype),
'message': str(traceback.format_tb(tb, 10))}
logging.exception(str(write_val))
Then in your script you have to override the value of sys.excepthook.
sys.excepthook = exception_logging
Now whenever an exception occurs it will be logged with your logger handler.
Note: Don't forget to setup logger before running this
In case somebody wants the exception logged in its default format, but in one line (for any reason), based on the accepted answer:
def exception_logging(exctype, value, tb):
"""
Log exception in one line by using the root logger.
Parameters
----------
exctype : exception type
value : seems to be the Exception object (with its message)
tb : traceback
"""
logging.error(''.join(traceback.format_exception(exctype, value, tb)))
Please also note, that it uses logging.error() instead of logging.exception() which also printed some extra "NoneType: None" line.
Also note that it only seems to work with uncaught exceptions.
For logging caught exceptions, visit How do I can format exception stacktraces in Python logging? and see also my answer.
A slight variation: If you run a Flask application, you can do this:
@app.errorhandler(Exception)
def exception_logger(error):
"""Log the exception."""
logger.exception(str(error))
return str(error)