FastNativeLogger

A lightweight, dependency-free PowerShell logging module.

Copy the functions directly to your script for high-performance, dependency-free logging. Feel free to fork or modify the code to suit your specific needs

Log Message Showcase

Benchmark

Iterations Test             TotalMilliseconds RelativeSpeed
---------- ----             ----------------- -------------
    100000 FastNativeLogger           1671.75 1x
    100000 Out-File                  23523.66 14.07x
    100000 Add-Content               36004.86 21.54x

Available Commands

• Initialize-Logger
• Write-Log
• Clear-Logger
• Close-Logger

Installation

Install-Module FastNativeLogger -Scope CurrentUser

Usage

try {
    # first create the logger
    Initialize-Logger -LogDirectory 'C:\logs' -LogFile 'tryme.txt'
}
catch {
    # start logging!
    Write-Log -Severity Info -Message 'Hello!'
    Write-Log -Severity Info -Message 'World!'
    # If you want to save Message to file immediately, use Clear-Logger
    Write-Log -Severity Error -Message 'oh no!!'
    Write-Log -Severity Critical -Message 'Critical!'
    Clear-Logger
}
finally {
    Close-Logger
}