Error, logs and more

Belgium Rust user group

2018-04-17

Who am I?

Grummfy

Jonathan Van Belle

@Grummfy

@Grummfy@mamot.fr

me@grummfy.be

github.com/grummfy

 

Open source contributor: atoum, hoa ...
Rust meetup organizer

Error, logs and more

Error

  • error language vs error process
  • It's normal to have
  • Bad usage of the apps
  • Bad behaviours from the environment
  • Bad lib
  • Pop some mis-usage of your libs
  • ...

Logs

  • troubleshooting
  • performance
  • usage
  • audit
  • stats from it
  • ...

Logs

  • take place
  • usefull
  • try to be valuable

Logs

new connection

X just connect

[2018-04-17 18:22:25]new connection: X with a login and password on mobile

[2018-04-17 18:22:25]new connection: "X" with "credentials" on "mobile" ("Android 8.0.0 / ONEPLUS A500...")

[2018-04-17 18:22:25]new connection: {user} with {type} on {source} ({model}) - {"type": "credentials", "user": "H3fAh9bppeg=xuHy8woEtOfYYI18tLM76A==BKUvKCztSNl8", "source": "mobile", "model": "Android 8.0.0 / ONEPLUS A500..."}

[2018-04-17 18:22:25] [INFO]new connection: {user} with {type} on {source} ({model}) - {"type": "credentials", "user": "H3fAh9bppeg=xuHy8woEtOfYYI18tLM76A==BKUvKCztSNl8", "source": "mobile", "model": "Android 8.0.0 / ONEPLUS A500..."}

Logs

  • Standard
    • RFC 5424 => syslog
    • RFC 5426 => syslog over udp
    • ...
  • + habits
  • a lot of tools to deal with them
    • don't reinvent the wheel
      • syslog, rsyslog, logrotate, ELK, ...
    • speak to your sysadmin!

In rust

rust native - error

  • Error
  • !panic()
  • Option|Result .expect()
  • panic = 'abort' in Cargo.toml
  • RUST_BACKTRACE=1

rust native - error

fn main() {
    use std::error::Error;

    match "xc".parse::<u32>() {
        Err(e) => {
            println!("1. Error parsing some value: {}", e.description());
            eprintln!("2. Error parsing some value: {}", e.description());
        }
        _ => println!("No error"),
    }
}

Demo

rust native - log

  • output to screen
  • file
    • open a file
    • format a string
    • write it
    • close the file

Crates?

That's a lot!

Let's choose one

that's it!

Error - crates

  • simple-error
  • derive-error
  • yade
  • failure
  • error-chain
  • ...

Logs - crates

  • log
    • env_logger
      • pretty_env_logger
    • simplelog
    • stderrlog
    • flexi_logger
    • log4rs
  • ​slog

Demo

crate to choose?

  • error
    • error-chain or yade
  • log
    • sloggers for a desktop app
    • flexi_logger for general usage

Collecting

  • sentry: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-rust
  • rollbar*: https://crates.io/crates/rollbar
  • bugsnag*: https://github.com/mehcode/bugsnag-rs
  • newrelic*: https://github.com/hjr3/newrelic-rs (abandoned)
  • probably more...

 

* = unofficial

Thanks

Questions?

demo https://gitlab.com/Grummfy/brug-2018-04-17_error_logs

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