📄 Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs
ᐅ Chris Siebenmann (npub1eap…eqcd)
｢ The core problem is that log messages themselves almost invariably come with additional metadata, often fairly rich metadata, but if you store things in plain text it's difficult to handle that metadata ｣
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PlaintextNotGreatLogFormat
#Logging #Metadata #Plaintext #Observability #Debugging
jbz /
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2024-07-07 18:00:04
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npub1thp9l7ed2x8n2fhaygsx0rgqdrru2qmk3d8plrp07n2k03scx8nq2k65lpPublished at
2024-07-07 18:00:04Event JSON
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