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Tacoli: a simple logging format
- aespinoza 14y agoIt is a nice idea. But I think writing Logs as JSON is still a lot more practical. The idea of writing Logs as JSON has been out for a while, and in my experience, JSON is far more practical. This is also a good article regarding Logs as JSON: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/26/log-for-machines-in-json/ http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/26/log-for-m...
- zdw 14y agoNobody thinks about date formats. There are two you should be using in nearly all cases (other than when you want to make a friendly display to humans): - ISO8601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601), which is relatively easy to prase, handles edge cases like timezones and similar gracefully, sorts numerically, and has great support in most languages. Specifically, the best format to use is usually the "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss +Z" one. - TAI64 (http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html) if you need more precision than ISO8601.