Encoding that in the log message itself still seems a bit crazy. I’m not familiar with log4j, but the .Net logging libraries I do know (NLog and Serilog) compl

Encoding that in the log message itself still seems a bit crazy. I’m not familiar with log4j, but the .Net logging libraries I do know (NLog and Serilog) completely separate writing log events from processing (writing, sending, whatever) the events.