---
id: hydra-colorlog
version: "1.2.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# hydra-colorlog — Enables colorlog for Hydra apps

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 348.4K/mo

## What it is and what it does

hydra-colorlog is a plugin that adds colored terminal output to Hydra's logging system. It wraps the colorlog library to integrate with Hydra's configuration framework, allowing applications built on Hydra to display log messages in color for better readability during development and debugging.

The package depends on colorlog and hydra-core, and is designed to be used within Hydra's logging configuration pipeline. It is part of the Hydra ecosystem, which transitioned to independent stewardship under the hydra-ecosystem GitHub organization while maintaining MIT licensing. The repository remains active with the last commit on 2026-08-14.

Use it for:

- Add colored console output to Hydra-based machine learning or data processing applications for easier log inspection.
- Improve readability of development-time logs in complex multi-component Hydra applications.
- Configure colored logging via Hydra's YAML configuration files without manual Python logging setup.
- Extend Hydra's default logging with visual distinction between log levels.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Integrates colorlog with Hydra to provide colored logging output for Hydra-based applications.

Yes, if you are already using Hydra and want colored logging output. The package has low install friction, permissive licensing, and is part of an actively maintained ecosystem. Verify compatibility with your target Hydra version, as the last release was 2022-05-17.

## Install

pip install hydra-colorlog
uv add hydra-colorlog
poetry add hydra-colorlog

## Installing hydra-colorlog

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained as part of the Hydra ecosystem.

License in practice: MIT-licensed with permissive treatment, allowing use in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install hydra-colorlog

import hydra

@hydra.main(config_path="conf", config_name="config")
def my_app(cfg):
    pass

Requires hydra-core to be installed; colorlog integration is configured via Hydra's logging configuration.

Verify before relying:

- Whether this package remains actively maintained given the last release was 2022-05-17.
- Current compatibility with Hydra 1.4 development releases and Python 3.10 through 3.14 support.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 348.4K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

hydra colored logging, colorlog hydra integration, hydra app logging colors, python hydra logging plugin, colored console output hydra, hydra logging formatter, logging, hydra-plugin, cli-config

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