[libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] Structured syslog (Lumberjack/CEE) support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:53:36AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Given systemd's fast adoption across a wide range of Linux distros,
> > in particular the enterprise distros from Red Hat & SUSE, we're
> > going to have journald support in places where structured logging
> > really matters, likely expanding to all Linux distros in a reasonably
> > short period. As such I don't really have a desire to also support
> > Lumberjack format in libvirt natively. IMHO, system services should
> > just log to journald and either journald can forward plain messages
> > to syslog, or a tool can be created which pulls structured log data
> > out of the journal and formats it in Lumberjack format.
> 
> I can live with that; however the libvirt use case I am looking at does
> require adding more metadata fields, and I can't see how doing that
> without memory allocation or imposing arbitrary limits is possible.
>  Imposing arbitrary limits it is, I guess.

I do have some ideas of adding more metadata too. What sort of pieces
of info are you looking for ? Based on your previous patches, I am
assuming the various virError struct fields at the very least ? Any
others ?

I think arbitrary limits will be ok, since while the number of metadata
fields is theoretically unlimited, in practice I don't see us needing
more than say 15 fields.

Regards,
Daniel
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