Allow to include/exclude Monolog logger channel on log forwarding

[tsantos84]

Summary

The PHP Agent allows to forward logs directly to NR servers but don't allow us to filter which log records we want to send, causing the sending of unwanted logs and impacting in the account billing.

Desired Behavior

Allow to developers to filter which logs records they want to forward to New Relic.

Possible Solution

Monolog \Monolog\Logger class has a mandatory constructor argument (eg. string $name) which tells the name of the logger instance and that argument will be passed as channel to LogRecord when $logger->log(...) is called. Frameworks like Symfony creates multiples instances of \Monolog\Logger each one having a diferente name/channel (eg. request, messenger, security, etc). The agent could use the channel property and allow us to filter which log record will be sent to NR servers.

Consider my application has 3 log channels:

$logger = new Logger('security');
$logger->info('Foo security message');

$logger = new Logger('doctrine');
$logger->info('Foo doctrine message');

$logger = new Logger('app');
$logger->info('Foo app message');

Now I want to send only app and doctrine channels to NR servers, I could configure the agent like this:

newrelic.application_logging.forwarding.monolog_channels_include=app,doctrine

Or

newrelic.application_logging.forwarding.monolog_channels_exclude=security

Additional context

I have undesired log records being sent to NR servers.

[lavarou]

@tsantos84 Thank you for submitting this feature request. It has been submitted on your behalf to the product team for evaluation.

[JulienChavee]

Hello,

It would be great to have the channel value in the metadata of the logs as well, to be able to query it.
Being able to do query on it would also allow to create drop filters based on this value

[cpearcey]

Hi! I am so sorry for the delay on this ask and for a response back to you. I am the new Product Manager for the PHP Agent and I am in the process of putting our Q1 plans together, which starts April 1st. This item is being considered as I am working to ensure we can tackle Feature Requests that are most impactful to our customers, while also working to continually improve the overall performance of the issue. I should have a better timing my March 15th of then we can expect to deliver this to you all. I appreciate the patience and look forward to working with you all to help the PHP Agent evolve with the ever changing technologies of the world.