Motivation

Today applications grow rapidly, becoming complicated and difficult to test and debug. Most of the time applications run on a remote site, leaving the developer little chance to monitor its execution and figure out the reason of its failure, once it should happen. Moreover, even the local debugging may become problematic if the application behavior depends heavily on asynchronous third-party events, like device feedback or another process activity.

This is where logging may help. The application stores all essential information of its run time to log, and once something goes wrong this information can be used to analyze program behavior and make necessary corrections. There are other very useful applications of logging, such as gathering statistic information and highlighting events (i.e. indicating that some situation has occurred or the application is experiencing some problems). These tasks have proved to be vital for many real-world industrial applications.

This library aims to make logging significantly easier for the application developer. It provides a wide range of out-of-box tools, along with public interfaces ready to be used to extend the library. The main goals of the library are:

Simplicity. A small example code snippet should be enough to get the feel of the library and be ready to use its basic features.
Extensibility. A user should be able to extend functionality of the library with regard to collecting and storing information into logs.
Performance. The library should make as least performance impact on the user's application as possible.