>> ...isn't all garbagy like XML... >I don't think it's fair to take something that isn't garbagy at all >and then say that the proposed alternative is

>> ...isn't all garbagy like XML... >I don't think it's fair to take something that isn't garbagy at all >and then say that the proposed alternative isn't bad because it's not as >garbagy as one of the garbagiest things ever invented. :-) I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted to say "JSON is a little garbagy", but I didn't mean to imply that JSON is at all garbagy. In fact, in comparison to the standard web log, it's very readable. Further, as a dev, I read web logs pretty frequently and I've forgotten what the "- -" was in the log line I pasted... EDIT: hey, I ignored most of your reply and that's rude: My first tool for debugging Apache is 'less', so I would be screaming and yelling if JSON logs were harder to read than non-JSON logs. Agreed about the size of the logs, but JSON logging seems to only change the caliber of the handgun used to shoot yourself in the foot, not turn it into a Howitzer.