I dunno, it seems pretty fine to me? Plenty of metadata, standardized text serialization format. Granted, it is a bit verbose; and I can no longer mark my files

I dunno, it seems pretty fine to me? Plenty of metadata, standardized text serialization format. Granted, it is a bit verbose; and I can no longer mark my files append-only - but those are pretty minor problems. And delivery mechanism is so powerful! Online or batched, pull or push, with clear logic and great documentation. After looking at things like RELP, I just want rsyslog to go away and everyone switch to journald. It is time we stop losing syslog entries just because the net was down for a bit!