WebSocket Logging — Complete Guide to Connection Monitoring

In this tutorial, you will learn about Websocket Logging. We cover key concepts, practical examples, and best practices to help you master this topic.

WebSocket logging captures connection events, message flows, errors, and performance metrics for debugging, monitoring, and auditing real-time communication between clients and servers.

What You'll Learn

• What to log for WebSocket connections
• Structured logging formats for WebSocket events
• Balancing verbosity with performance

Why It Matters

WebSocket connections are long-lived and bidirectional. Without logging, debugging issues requires reproducing the exact scenario, which is difficult with real-time connections.

Real-World Use

Durga Antivirus Pro logs every WebSocket connection event: connect, disconnect, message count per session, errors, and reconnection attempts. Logs are structured JSON shipped to Elasticsearch for analysis.

What's Next

Learn about WebSocket monitoring for real-time dashboards, or explore WebSocket security for security event logging.