silverleague/silverstripe-logviewer

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Introduction

As a developer you may not be as aware of SilverStripe logging as you may want to be.

This module intends to add a Monolog logger which will log to a database table that can be rendered to an area of the CMS admin for easy viewing.

Why?

Because logs often go unnoticed, and since the 4.x framework has Monolog bundled with it, we can easily add a new LoggerInterface to push logs to the database. From here, they can easily be displayed in the admin as a GridField or similar.

Details

A new CMS section which displays a GridFields listing all log entries stored.

Columns could be: log content, date/time, log level.

Provide the filter to certain log levels, and allow the GridField to be filterable so I could search for “Deprecated” for example, or to filter by a date range.

We would implement a BuildTask and/or a CronTask which would clear the logs that are older than x days (7? 14? 30?). A button in the CMS admin interface would also allow you to clear old logs.

Export to CSV functionality would be useful as well.

Framework support

^4.0

Functionality

• Add new CMSMain interface to the admin area
• Create DataObject representing a log entry
• Add and configure new monolog LoggerInterface to push the log into a new LogEntry (for example)
• Implement filterable/searchable/orderable GridField in the CMS admin
• Add BuildTask/CronTask/both to remove old log entries automatically
• Add button to CMS main to remove old log entries manually

License

To be released under the MIT license.

Contributing

Please see the Contributing section for more information.