JEP 271: Unified GC Logging

[Tao Mao]

Ooops.. the link https://logentries.com/doc/json/

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Tao Mao <yiyeguhu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding alternative log format, has JSON format been put on the table?
> It has human and machine readability as well as extensibility (i.e., not
> likely to break existing tools when new fields are added).
>
> You can take a glance here for how JSON logs would look like in other
> field.
>
> Thanks.
> Tao Mao
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Kirk Pepperdine <kirk at kodewerk.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Johann,
>>
>> XML is far from my favorite format. It’s unnecessarily verbose. But then,
>> I also don’t care that much about “human readable” either.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Kirk
>>
>> > On Sep 24, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Bengt Rutisson <bengt.rutisson at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Johann,
>> >
>> > Thanks for looking at the JEP!
>> >
>> > On 24/09/15 14:40, Johann N. Loefflmann wrote:
>> >> On 09/24/2015 02:08 PM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>> >>> and I'm happy to hear some suggestions on how to format this nicely,
>> >>
>> >> Why not printing out xml on demand (resp. by default if -Xloggc is
>> set) ?
>> >> With xml any preferred/customized output format could be generated
>> from the log (e.g. plain text).
>> >
>> > I think this has already been discussed in the discussions around the
>> JEP for the unfied logging framework "JEP 158 Unified JVM Logging". Please
>> see the discussions there.
>> >
>> > In short I think the main point is that it is good if the logging is
>> easy for tools to parse but the main intent is still that they should be
>> human readable. So, XML is not a desirable format.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bengt
>> >
>> >>
>> >> just my 0.02 cents,
>> >> -Johann
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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