Mongo Beautiful Logger

Have you ever started your rails console or log files and groaned when this is what you saw?

Mongo Beautiful Logger is simple and beautiful logging gem that converts that, into this:

Amazing, right?

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongo_beautiful_logger'

And then run:

$ bundle install

Or you can install it manually:

$ gem install mongo_beautiful_logger

To set Mongo Beautiful Logger as the default logger for MongoDB, create a configuration file and add the following:

# config/initializers/mongo_logger.rb
require "mongo_beautiful_logger"

# MongoDB Driver:
Mongo::Logger.logger = MongoBeautifulLogger.new($stdout)

# Mongoid ODM:
Mongoid.logger = MongoBeautifulLogger.new($stdout)

The MongoidBeautifulLogger class takes unlimited parameters which specify multiple output destinations. This can be used to output logs to a file as well as the console:

MongoBeautifulLogger.new($stdout, 'log.txt')

Mongo Beautiful logger automatically colors all mongodb actions (find, update, insert, delete, aggregate, error, endsession, failure). It will also filter out the redundant messages regarding topology events, and server description changes. If there are any other actions that you would like to be customized, you can open a github issue or submit a pull request. Contributions are greatly appreciated.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.