I dunno, this feels like the "web developers" approach to logging. I can't say that it wouldn't be cool to be able to parse logs into a structured format, but h

I dunno, this feels like the "web developers" approach to logging. I can't say that it wouldn't be cool to be able to parse logs into a structured format, but honestly, tools are already there to parse logs that are very powerful (gawk + shell pipes + {whatever_unix_tool_you_can_think_of}). If you don't have programmers that can knock out a real quick awk liner to process a logfile for you in any custom way you want, then I could see where this approach (using JSON) is useful because then they can use something they are familiar with instead of something they are not. But really, you should know how to use the Unix tool chain if you're a programmer.