Crate tracing_subscriber

Utilities for implementing and composing tracing subscribers.

tracing is a framework for instrumenting Rust programs to collect scoped, structured, and async-aware diagnostics. The Collect trait represents the functionality necessary to collect this trace data. This crate contains tools for composing subscribers out of smaller units of behaviour, and batteries-included implementations of common subscriber functionality.

tracing-subscriber is intended for use by both Collector authors and application authors using tracing to instrument their applications.

Compiler support: requires rustc 1.63+

Subscribers and Filters

The most important component of the tracing-subscriber API is the Subscribe trait, which provides a composable abstraction for building collectors. Like the Collect trait, Subscribe defines a particular behavior for collecting trace data. Unlike Collect, which implements a complete strategy for how trace data is collected, Subscribe provide modular implementations of specific behaviors. Therefore, they can be composed together to form a collector which is capable of recording traces in a variety of ways. See the subscribe module’s documentation for details on using subscribers.

In addition, the Filter trait defines an interface for filtering what spans and events are recorded by a particular subscriber. This allows different Subscribe implementationss to handle separate subsets of the trace data emitted by a program. See the documentation on per-subscriber filtering for more information on using Filters.

Included Collectors

The following collectors are provided for application authors:

• fmt - Formats and logs tracing data (requires the fmt feature flag)

Feature Flags

• std: Enables APIs that depend on the Rust standard library (enabled by default).
• alloc: Depend on liballoc (enabled by “std”).
• env-filter: Enables the EnvFilter type, which implements filtering similar to the env_logger crate. Requires “std”.
• fmt: Enables the fmt module, which provides a subscriber implementation for printing formatted representations of trace events. Enabled by default. Requires “registry” and “std”.
• ansi: Enables fmt support for ANSI terminal colors. Enabled by default.
• registry: enables the registry module. Enabled by default. Requires “std”.
• json: Enables fmt support for JSON output. In JSON output, the ANSI feature does nothing. Requires “fmt” and “std”.
• local-time: Enables local time formatting when using the time crate’s timestamp formatters with the fmt subscriber.

Optional Dependencies

• tracing-log: Enables better formatting for events emitted by log macros in the fmt subscriber. Enabled by default.
• time: Enables support for using the time crate for timestamp formatting in the fmt subscriber.
• smallvec: Causes the EnvFilter type to use the smallvec crate (rather than Vec) as a performance optimization. Enabled by default.
• parking_lot: Use the parking_lot crate’s RwLock implementation rather than the Rust standard library’s implementation.

no_std Support

In embedded systems and other bare-metal applications, tracing can be used without requiring the Rust standard library, although some features are disabled. Although most of the APIs provided by tracing-subscriber, such as fmt and EnvFilter, require the standard library, some functionality, such as the Subscribe trait, can still be used in no_std environments.

The dependency on the standard library is controlled by two crate feature flags, “std”, which enables the dependency on libstd, and “alloc”, which enables the dependency on liballoc (and is enabled by the “std” feature). These features are enabled by default, but no_std users can disable them using:

# Cargo.toml
tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }

Additional APIs are available when liballoc is available. To enable liballoc but not std, use:

# Cargo.toml
tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }

Supported Rust Versions

Tracing is built against the latest stable release. The minimum supported version is 1.63. The current Tracing version is not guaranteed to build on Rust versions earlier than the minimum supported version.

Tracing follows the same compiler support policies as the rest of the Tokio project. The current stable Rust compiler and the three most recent minor versions before it will always be supported. For example, if the current stable compiler version is 1.69, the minimum supported version will not be increased past 1.66, three minor versions prior. Increasing the minimum supported compiler version is not considered a semver breaking change as long as doing so complies with this policy.

Re-exports

• pub use fmt::fmt;
  fmt and std
• pub use fmt::Subscriber as FmtSubscriber;
  fmt and std
• pub use filter::EnvFilter;
  env-filter and std
• pub use subscribe::Subscribe;
• pub use registry::Registry;
  registry and std

Modules

• field
  Utilities for working with fields and field visitors.
• filter
  Subscribers that control which spans and events are enabled by the wrapped collector.
• fmtfmt and std
  A Collector for formatting and logging tracing data.
• prelude
  The tracing-subscriber prelude.
• registry
  Storage for span data shared by multiple Subscribes.
• reloadstd
  Wrapper for a Collect or Subscribe to allow it to be dynamically reloaded.
• subscribe
  The Subscribe trait, a composable abstraction for building collectors.
• util
  Extension traits and other utilities to make working with subscribers more ergonomic.

Functions

• registryregistry and std
  Creates a default Registry, a Collect implementation which tracks per-span data and exposes it to Subscribes.