Missed opportunity: it would really be a different conversation if, around 1980 or so, syslog(3) became a standard and was adopted at that time by everyone. Log

Missed opportunity: it would really be a different conversation if, around 1980 or so, syslog(3) became a standard and was adopted at that time by everyone. Logs really would be in much the same format and you could use simple text tools on them. After you agreed on the standard parts timestamp, facility, and level, you'd still need some standard structure for the variant message parts though, which is where json is good: it's arbitrarily deep. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/syslog.3.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/syslog.3.html