[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS and the logging framework

[Nithya Balachandran]

Agreed. Such a format would make log messages far more readable as well as making it easy for applications to parse them,

Nithya

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Bointon" <marcus at synchromedia.co.uk>
To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>, gluster-devel at gluster.org
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May, 2014 5:06:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] GlusterFS and the logging	framework

On 13 May 2014, at 13:30, Sahina Bose <sabose at redhat.com> wrote:

> If the message was in a format:{"msgid":xxx,"msg": "Usage is above soft limit: 300.0KB used by /test/ ","volume": "test-vol", "dir":"/test"}
> 
> This helps the applications that parse the logs to identify affected enitities. Otherwise we need to resort to pattern matching which is kinda flaky. (currently we monitor logs for a nagios monitoring plugin).

This is a great idea - Drupal does exactly this. If you use things like logstash, simple, reliable log formatting makes automated log processing much simpler.

Marcus
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