Adding python logging to FastApi endpoints, hosted on docker doesn't display API Endpoints logs

Question

I have a fastapi app on which I want to add python logging. I followed the basic tutorial and added this, however this doesn't add API but just gunicorn logging.

So I have a local server hosted using docker build so running server using docker-compose up and testing my endpoints using api client (Insomnia, similar to postman). Below is the code where no log file is created and hence no log statements added.

My project str is as follows:

project/
  src/ 
    api/
      models/ 
        users.py
      routers/
        users.py
      main.py
      logging.conf

"""
main.py Main is the starting point for the app.
"""
import logging
import logging.config
from fastapi import FastAPI
from msgpack_asgi import MessagePackMiddleware
import uvicorn

from api.routers import users


logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


app = FastAPI(debug=True)
app.include_router(users.router)


@app.get("/check")
async def check():
    """Simple health check endpoint."""
    logger.info("logging from the root logger")
    return {"success": True}

Also, I am using gunicorn.conf that looks like this:

[program:gunicorn]
command=poetry run gunicorn -c /etc/gunicorn/gunicorn.conf.py foodgame_api.main:app
directory=/var/www/
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=true

And gunicorn.conf.py as

import multiprocessing
bind = "unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock"
workers = multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 2 + 1
worker_class = "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker"
loglevel = "debug"
errorlog = "-"
capture_output = True
chdir = "/var/www"
reload = True
reload_engine = "auto"
accesslog = "-"
access_log_format = '%(h)s %(l)s %(u)s %(t)s "%(r)s" %(s)s %(b)s "%(f)s" "%(a)s"'

This is my output terminal for the above API endpoint on docker:

Could anyone please guide me here? I am new to FastApi so some help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Inspired by JPG's answer, but using a pydantic model looked cleaner.

You might want to expose more variables. This config worked good for me.

from pydantic import BaseModel

class LogConfig(BaseModel):
    """Logging configuration to be set for the server"""

    LOGGER_NAME: str = "mycoolapp"
    LOG_FORMAT: str = "%(levelprefix)s | %(asctime)s | %(message)s"
    LOG_LEVEL: str = "DEBUG"

    # Logging config
    version: int = 1
    disable_existing_loggers: bool = False
    formatters: dict = {
        "default": {
            "()": "uvicorn.logging.DefaultFormatter",
            "fmt": LOG_FORMAT,
            "datefmt": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
        },
    }
    handlers: dict = {
        "default": {
            "formatter": "default",
            "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
            "stream": "ext://sys.stderr",
        },

    }
    loggers: dict = {
        LOGGER_NAME: {"handlers": ["default"], "level": LOG_LEVEL},
    }

Then import it into your main.py file as:

from logging.config import dictConfig
import logging
from .config import LogConfig

dictConfig(LogConfig().dict())
logger = logging.getLogger("mycoolapp")

logger.info("Dummy Info")
logger.error("Dummy Error")
logger.debug("Dummy Debug")
logger.warning("Dummy Warning")

Which gives: