improved logging feature of the app.

Changes to be committed:
	modified:   camera-client/camera_monitor.py

camera-client/camera_monitor.py

@@ -84,9 +84,29 @@ def load_config(config_path):
     except json.JSONDecodeError:
         raise Exception(f"Invalid JSON format in config file: {config_path}")
 
-def setup_logging():
+def setup_logging(log_file='logs/camera_monitor.log'):
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
+    # logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
-    return logging.getLogger('CameraMonitor')
+    # return logging.getLogger('CameraMonitor')
+    # Configure the logger
+    logger = logging.getLogger('CameraMonitor')
+    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+    # Create a TimedRotatingFileHandler for log rotation
+    file_handler = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler(
+        log_file, when='midnight', backupCount=7
+    )  # Keeps logs for 7 days
+    file_handler.suffix = '%Y-%m-%d'  # Append date to log file names
+
+    # Define the log message format
+    formatter = logging.Formatter(
+        '%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
+    )
+    file_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+
+    # Add the file handler to the logger
+    logger.addHandler(file_handler)
+
+    return logger
 
 def main():
     args = parse_command_line_args()