As of December 2016, Flask has a built-in logger that it instantiates for you. Unfortunately, this misses the errors and other log messages in other libraries that may also be valuable.

It would be nice to have a single logger, one that captures BOTH library AND app logs. For those that want a global logger, this may take a few concept to get right. You have to:

  1. undo flask's logging
  2. set up your own logging
  3. set log levels, as the default may not suit you.

Combined, this ends up looking like:

import logging
import sys
from flask import Flask, current_app

LOG = logging.getLogger("my_log")
LOG2 = logging.getLogger(__name__ + ".toheunateh")
app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route("/")
def route():
    current_app.logger.info("flask logger: foo")
    LOG.info("log: foo")
    LOG2.info("log2: foo")
    return "hello!"


# create your own custom handler and formatter.
# you can also use logging.basicConfig() to get
# the python default.
out_hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
fmt = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s")
out_hdlr.setFormatter(fmt)
out_hdlr.setLevel(logging.INFO)
# append to the global logger.
logging.getLogger().addHandler(out_hdlr)
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.INFO)
# removing the handler and
# re-adding propagation ensures that
# the root handler gets the messages again.
app.logger.handlers = []
app.logger.propagate = True
app.run()

And you get the right messages. Voila!