Logging

Overview

Use of log is a great tool to ensure that your scrapes are working correctly as well as troubleshooting problems that arise. Though logging large amounts of information may slow down a scrape, the best way around this is not to remove log writing requests but rather change the verbosity of the logging when running the scrape in a production environment. If you do this, know that you make it harder to troubleshoot some problems should they arise.

The number of methods provided is merely to enhance your ability to log information according to importance.

See Also

• debug() [log] - Sends a message to the log as an debug message
• info() [log] - Sends a message to the log as an info message
• warn() [log] - Sends a message to the log as an warning message
• error() [log] - Sends a message to the log as a error message