Yes, at least that way it shouldn’t impact the throughput of your application unless you are logging so much that whatever buffer or queueing it uses doesn’t fill up.
Ralph > On Apr 3, 2018, at 9:30 PM, Ole Ersoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just came across something related for amazon lambda: > > https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-implement-log-aggregation-for-aws-lambda-ca714bf02f48 > > Quote: > > During the execution of a Lambda function, whatever you write to > stdout (for example, using|console.log|in Node.js) will be captured by > Lambda and sent to CloudWatch Logs asynchronously in the background. > > Still does not answer the "Why" on the performance question, but I thought it > was interesting ... > > Cheers, > > Ole > > > > On 04/03/2018 04:25 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> Thanks. That is helpful but it still doesn’t answer the question I was >> asking, although it does provide good documentation on what people are >> recommending for how to configure applications for the cloud. >> >> Testing at Log4j has shown that writing to stdout is magnitudes slower than >> logging to a file, even when stdout is redirected to a file. What I am >> wondering, and still haven’t found an answer to, is whether this performance >> degradation is present when a Java app is running in a docker container and >> logs to stdout. >> >> Ralph >> >>> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Ole Ersoy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I accidentally deleted the original thread, but saw that there were some >>> questions surrounding logging to stdout (I assume while running in a >>> microservice dockerized environment). >>> >>> You might find these article helpful: >>> http://callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik/2017/07/29/building-microservices-part-7-distributed-tracing/ >>> http://callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik/2017/09/13/building-microservices-part-8-logging-with-ELK/ >>> >>> These cover log event collection for both ELK and Zipkin. Parts 1-6 in the >>> series are really good as well if you want to know more about microservices >>> and security in general with the Spring and Netflix OSS stack. Originally >>> came across it while looking for OAuth material. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ole >>> >> >> >
