On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alistair Cunningham < acunningham at integrics.com> wrote: > On 16/10/13 14:22, Matthew Jordan wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brad Watkins >> <bwatkins at thinkingphones.com <mailto:bwatkins@**thinkingphones.com<bwatkins at thinkingphones.com>>> >> wrote: >> >> I don't personally see a need for logging functionality within ARI. >> There are so many ways in any language you can think of to log to >> files/database/etc. that complicating the ARI in order to pollute >> asterisk's logs more seems unnecessary. >> >> - Brad >> >> Actually, a few people (/me looks at Alistair and Lenz) at AstriDevCon >> expressed an interest in this functionality. >> > > What both Steve Davies and I were interested in at AstriDevCon was the > ability to do the equivalent of the UserEvent() dialplan application, so > that there's a way to send a message from an ARI application through > Asterisk to something listening on AMI (and perhaps ARI too). This is very > useful when you have a complex telephony system with different components > written by different people/companies but which need to be aware of each > other's telephony actions. > > The UserEvent functionality is on another issue - https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-22697. Right now it needs the ability to POST JSON up with requests, so Paul's issue in https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-22685 has to come first. > > > [Oct 16 17:20:23] ERROR[20023] my_first_queue.py:1234: Oh snap! There > > aren't any agents! Bail - bail - bail > > We weren't talking about ARI to log files specifically, but I agree that > this would also be very useful to have, for exactly this sort of example. > Having logging of all telephony actions in one place is a Very Good Thing > for auditing and debugging purposes. > Is Paul's suggestion of using syslog or logstash (which can aggregate logs from multiple sources) a valid work around? -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-app-dev/attachments/20131016/58143ca3/attachment-0001.html>
