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+Logging Handler
+===============
+
+Rich supplies a :ref:`logging handler<logging>` which will format and colorize text written by Python's logging module.
+
+Here's an example of how to set up a rich logger::
+
+    import logging
+    from rich.logging import RichHandler
+
+    FORMAT = "%(message)s"
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        level="NOTSET", format=FORMAT, datefmt="[%X]", handlers=[RichHandler()]
+    )
+
+    log = logging.getLogger("rich")
+    log.info("Hello, World!")
+
+Rich logs won't render :ref:`console_markup` in logging by default as most libraries won't be aware of the need to escape literal square brackets, but you can enable it by setting ``markup=True`` on the handler. Alternatively you can enable it per log message by supplying the ``extra`` argument as follows::  
+
+    log.error("[bold red blink]Server is shutting down![/]", extra={"markup": True})
+
+
+Handle exceptions
+-------------------
+
+The :class:`~rich.logging.RichHandler` class may be configured to use Rich's :class:`~rich.traceback.Traceback` class to format exceptions, which provides more context than a builtin exception. To get beautiful exceptions in your logs set ``rich_tracebacks=True`` on the handler constructor::
+
+
+    import logging
+    from rich.logging import RichHandler
+
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        level="NOTSET",
+        format="%(message)s",
+        datefmt="[%X]",
+        handlers=[RichHandler(rich_tracebacks=True)]
+    )
+
+    log = logging.getLogger("rich")
+    try:
+        print(1 / 0)
+    except Exception:
+        log.exception("unable print!")
+
+
+There are a number of other options you can use to configure logging output, see the :class:`~rich.logging.RichHandler` reference for details.