glog VS log

Compare glog vs log and see what are their differences.

glog

Leveled execution logs for Go (by golang)

log

Structured logging package for Go. (by apex)
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glog log
8 2
3,508 1,345
0.4% 0.3%
5.5 0.0
4 months ago 5 months ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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glog

Posts with mentions or reviews of glog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.
  • Best Logging Library for Golang
    6 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2023
    I started a poll on r/golang with these four candidates, but also came to know about glog which was a go port of a C++ project by Google. I used that option in the poll conducted on LinkedIn.
  • Have you replaced Sirupsen/logrus, and if so, with what?
    10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Jun 2022
    Other than print and formatted print to stdout and stderr, what more do you need? I adapted much of the glog rationale into a logging wrapper. Allowing many thousands of unneeded lines from Logrus to be avoided. https://github.com/golang/glog
  • Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2021
    By globals, I mean global resources outside of the codes namespace. It may not even be a resource in the process, such as a log file or temporary directory or a database. If you have two versions of a crate in their completely separate worlds, and call both of their init_logging() functions to log to a file specified by an environment variable, things are likely to go pear shaped when they stomp over each others log file.

    I'm a Rust novice, but the example I tripped over in Go was https://github.com/golang/glog. It has a module level init() initialization routine that makes calls to the stdlib flags package, manipulating the default command line flags (a global resource). If you ended up with multiple versions of glog via transient dependencies, your program would panic on startup as the second version's init() would make calls only allowed to be called once. Rust thankfully avoids this particular one by requiring initialization to be called by main() (apart from the hack described in the article).

  • Lumber: A simple and pretty logger for Golang
    6 projects | /r/golang | 24 Sep 2021
    There is no better way than looking at your older brothers and learning from them: stdlib log, glog, logrus, zerolog, log15 (eth fork)...
  • simple logging module for Go - Glog
    3 projects | /r/golang | 11 Aug 2021
    Also glog is the name of Google logging library which is confusing. https://github.com/golang/glog
  • Simple leveled logging solution
    2 projects | /r/golang | 11 Mar 2021
    the 5th hit looks like something made 6-8 yrs ago which would have worked: https://github.com/golang/glog
  • can someone review my code?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 23 Dec 2020
    Read similar repos, compare, learn: https://github.com/rs/zerolog https://christine.website/blog/ln-the-natural-logger-2020-10-17 https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus https://github.com/golang/glog https://github.com/nikandfor/tlog (this one is mine)

log

Posts with mentions or reviews of log. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glog and log you can also consider the following projects:

zax - Zap logger with context

logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

zap - Blazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.

zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger

slog

xlog - xlog is a logger for net/context aware HTTP applications

lumberjack - lumberjack is a log rolling package for Go

logutils - Utilities for slightly better logging in Go (Golang).

spew - Implements a deep pretty printer for Go data structures to aid in debugging