The point is that you can include arbitrary metadata of your choosing, in addition to the standard fields that journald keeps track of for you. For example, if

The point is that you can include arbitrary metadata of your choosing, in addition to the standard fields that journald keeps track of for you. For example, if you include the id of the logged–in user with every message, then when they complain about a bug you can query the journal to find exactly what they did without any noise from all your other users. And you don’t even have to pay a SaaS company for the privilege. > I'm just tired of all this added complexity, when I don't really see much of the benefit. There is a lot less for each application to implement on its own, such as log levels, timestamp format, log rotation or even just the paths where logs should go. Instead those details can be configured by the system administrator using a uniform interface across all applications.