Hi, I just started using Typesense and I really li...
# community-helps
Snorri
08/19/2021, 3:06 PMHi, I just started using Typesense and I really like it.
I have one question. Why is all logging output directed to stderr?
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Kishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 3:19 PM👋 Glad to hear you like it. May I know on which environment you are running Typesense?
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Snorri
08/19/2021, 3:55 PMI'm running docker containers on K8
Snorri
08/19/2021, 3:55 PMBut I confirmed this is also the case for the latest docker image
Snorri
08/19/2021, 3:55 PMrunning locally
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Kishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 3:57 PM🤔 How do you differentiate between stdout and stederr? If I am not wrong,
docker logsKishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 4:00 PMOkay, I confirmed that docker logs is indeed full of only stderr!
Kishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 4:02 PMAny idea why this would be the case? This is the Dockerfile used to build the container, fairly straightforward: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/master/docker/deployment.Dockerfile
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Snorri
08/19/2021, 4:05 PMNo idea. I'll take a look
Snorri
08/19/2021, 4:20 PM Copy code
In typesense_server_utils.cpp
if(log_dir.empty()) {
// use console logger if log dir is not specified
FLAGS_logtostderr = true;
}Snorri
08/19/2021, 4:21 PMonly stderr output flag set
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Kishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 4:22 PMThanks for catching that, but I think the reason I had to do this was because of some GLOG quirk. Let me look into it.
Kishore Nallan
08/19/2021, 4:30 PMFrustrating, GLOG only has option to log to stderr only for console logging.
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Snorri
08/19/2021, 4:36 PMAgreed, seems like a pretty terrible library and no way to configure it.
Snorri
08/19/2021, 4:56 PMSnorri
08/19/2021, 4:56 PMCreated an issue on this.
Snorri
08/19/2021, 8:57 PMAnd thank you for the quick response!