Make it possible to use global additional gelf parameter

[phlegx]

Hi Rudi,

as discussed here: https://github.com/rudionrails/yell/issues/24#issuecomment-25878023 I wanted to add a feature request for the yell-adapters-gelf.

It would be great if one could add a global additional gelf parameter/ field so that every message send to the server would also carry the additional field without explicitly add it to every message directly.

For example additional field "logger_name" submitted for every message:

logger.adapter :gelf, :host => '192.168.65.144',
                              :port => 12201,
                              :facility => DAEMON_NAME + curr_env,
                              "_logger_name" => name

Don't know if such a thing is even possible but I would find this very much useful!

best Martin

[phlegx]

Hi!

Just wanted to push this issue. Please just let me know what you would think about this feature! thank you!

best Martin

[OscarBarrett]

You could use a custom log method.

def log(type, message)
  logger.send(type, message, _name: your_logger_name) 
end

Where type is a symbol of the severity, such as :warning or :error.

[rudionrails]

This feature request applies more to the core yell gem. This could be useful for other adapters as well. I'll have a look at the issue. In the meantime I'd suggest that you use the @OscarBarrett solution.