How do I log from my Python Spark script

Question

I have a Python Spark program which I run with spark-submit. I want to put logging statements in it.

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Answer 1

In my case, I am just happy to get my log messages added to the workers stderr, along with the usual spark log messages.

If that suits your needs, then the trick is to redirect the particular Python logger to stderr.

For example, the following, inspired from this answer, works fine for me:

def getlogger(name, level=logging.INFO):
    import logging
    import sys

    logger = logging.getLogger(name)
    logger.setLevel(level)
    if logger.handlers:
        # or else, as I found out, we keep adding handlers and duplicate messages
        pass
    else:
        ch = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
        ch.setLevel(level)
        formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
        ch.setFormatter(formatter)
        logger.addHandler(ch)
    return logger

Usage:

def tst_log():
    logger = getlogger('my-worker')
    logger.debug('a')
    logger.info('b')
    logger.warning('c')
    logger.error('d')
    logger.critical('e')
    ...

Output (plus a few surrounding lines for context):

17/05/03 03:25:32 INFO MemoryStore: Block broadcast_24 stored as values in memory (estimated size 5.8 KB, free 319.2 MB)
2017-05-03 03:25:32,849 - my-worker - INFO - b
2017-05-03 03:25:32,849 - my-worker - WARNING - c
2017-05-03 03:25:32,849 - my-worker - ERROR - d
2017-05-03 03:25:32,849 - my-worker - CRITICAL - e
17/05/03 03:25:32 INFO PythonRunner: Times: total = 2, boot = -40969, init = 40971, finish = 0
17/05/03 03:25:32 INFO Executor: Finished task 7.0 in stage 20.0 (TID 213). 2109 bytes result sent to driver