How to write custom message to the default file?

[f1238762001]

I extend the Alerter class to send the alert. Is it possible to log the custom error message to the default elastalert.log?
Maybe I should import the default logger?

class TestAlerter(Alerter):
    for match_data in matches:
            if match_data is None:
                logger.error('no match data')

[jertel]

Yes, import the logger from the elastalert.util module and those logs will output with the other elastalert logs. If they don't show up then it's likely a logger configuration issue in your config.yaml.