On Thu, 23.07.15 09:17, Anne Mulhern (amulh...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi! > > We all know that using the journald native API it is possible to enrich the > log > entry data w/ key/value pairs, although this facility is Linux only. > The set of key/value pairs which a message may log to the journal can > constitute an API with which a logging entity can communicate alerts to > consumers > of this information. Clearly this requires an agreement on an API between the > logging > entity and the consumer of the journal entries. > > Are there existing projects that have used this facility in a principled, > coordinated way with some success or have there been any interesting failures > along those same lines?
systemd of courses uses its on its own, and we tried to document the fields we use in systemd.journal-fields(7), though it might be slightly incomplete. But yes, this is indeed API, and deserves complete documentation, like any C API, any D-Bus API or a any REST API would need too. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
