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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>, gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, 13 May, 2014 5:06:22 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS and the logging framework On 13 May 2014, at 13:30, Sahina Bose <sabose@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Marcus Bointon Technical Director, Synchromedia Limited Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ UK 1CRM solutions http://www.syniah.com/ marcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel