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Top 23 C++ Logging Projects
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Project mention: 🚀 Zyn 1.0.2 Released — Smarter Builds, Powerful Debugging, Cleaner Workflow | dev.to | 2025-05-11
📦 Add Dependencies with zyn add You can now easily add Git-based dependencies to your project using a simple command: zyn add https://github.com/gabime/spdlog
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POCO
The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
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There’s a tool called lnav that will parse logfiles into a temporary SQLite database and allows to analyse them using SQL features:
https://lnav.org/
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easyloggingpp
C++ logging library. It is powerful, supports asynchronous low latency, extendable, light-weight, fast performing, thread and type safe and consists of many built-in features. It provides ability to write logs in your own customized format. It also provide support for logging your classes, third-party libraries, STL and third-party containers etc.
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NanoLog
Nanolog is an extremely performant nanosecond scale logging system for C++ that exposes a simple printf-like API.
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To dive deeper into Quill or contribute to the project, visit the GitHub repository or the Documentation page.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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log4cplus
log4cplus is a simple to use C++ logging API providing thread-safe, flexible, and arbitrarily granular control over log management and configuration. It is modelled after the Java log4j API.
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clp
Compressed Log Processor (CLP) is a free log management tool capable of compressing logs and searching the compressed logs without decompression.
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G3log
G3log is an asynchronous, "crash safe", logger that is easy to use with default logging sinks or you can add your own. G3log is made with plain C++14 (C++11 support up to release 1.3.2) with no external libraries (except gtest used for unit tests). G3log is made to be cross-platform, currently running on OSX, Windows and several Linux distros. See Readme below for details of usage.
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Project mention: C++ logging library – something I've been working on | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-01
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areg-sdk
AREG is a cross-platform asynchronous Object RPC framework to simplify multitasking programming by blurring borders between processes and treating remote objects as if they coexist in the same thread.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Logging projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | spdlog | 26,691 |
| 2 | POCO | 9,082 |
| 3 | lnav | 8,898 |
| 4 | easyloggingpp | 3,853 |
| 5 | NanoLog | 3,212 |
| 6 | plog | 2,372 |
| 7 | quill | 2,332 |
| 8 | palanteer | 2,148 |
| 9 | loguru | 1,838 |
| 10 | log4cplus | 1,695 |
| 11 | clp | 973 |
| 12 | G3log | 930 |
| 13 | fmtlog | 894 |
| 14 | reckless | 495 |
| 15 | UltimateStarterKit | 340 |
| 16 | lwlog | 300 |
| 17 | areg-sdk | 296 |
| 18 | mini-async-log | 223 |
| 19 | binary_log | 223 |
| 20 | Blackhole | 201 |
| 21 | Boost.Log | 192 |
| 22 | RejsaRubberTrac | 142 |
| 23 | loggedfs | 129 |
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