From f8f08842cce7ed05c296430852f60f287458c529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Grondin <antoinegrondin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:27:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] default logs to stderr

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 logger.go    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index eb72bff..2cf1175 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 0.8
+
+logrus: defaults to stderr instead of stdout
+
 # 0.7.3
 
 formatter/\*: allow configuration of timestamp layout
diff --git a/logger.go b/logger.go
index da928a3..3c07ea7 100644
--- a/logger.go
+++ b/logger.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ type Logger struct {
 // It's recommended to make this a global instance called `log`.
 func New() *Logger {
 	return &Logger{
-		Out:       os.Stdout,
+		Out:       os.Stderr,
 		Formatter: new(TextFormatter),
 		Hooks:     make(levelHooks),
 		Level:     InfoLevel,