My 2 cents:
As Rsyslog is used to handle several log formats, and encourage to use
them, it would be great it also use a well-known format.
Adding timestamps, caller (which component produces the log), thread-id
or an identifier to "trace" an event going from input to output (print
message id) would be great.
Perhaps I would test a depth value instead of a loglevel. Enabling
selective debug (specific modules only) would also be great.
Regards.
On 14/08/17 10:59, Jan Gerhards wrote:
2017-08-12 23:39 GMT+02:00 Joe Blow via rsyslog <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com>:
Is the output already in JSON? If not it'd be great to have something that
you could index and query directly.
Right now the output isn't in JSON. It is only accessible in the
debug-log and only if debugging is enabled. However, I'm unsure about
the benefits of having it in JSON format, since the messages
themselves have no structure. The only index-able parts would be the
(relative) timestamp, the thread and the file in which the output is
generated.
Because of this, I don't see many uses for debug-output in JSON,
especially taking into consideration that the most important parts are
the message itself. However, I would also be interested in hearing
your opinion about the possible cases where JSON could be used.
Jan
Cheers,
JB
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Jan Gerhards <jgerha...@adiscon.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am working on a refactoring of the debug output generated by rsyslog
to increase usability not only for developers, but also for end users.
For more information see
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/improving-rsyslog-debug-
output-jan-gerhards
As of rsyslog version 8.29 I have started by implementing first
configuration options. As mentioned in the article, I would also be
glad to hear from you about your ideas.
Jan
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