syslog-ng 4 theme: typing
As explained in my previous post, we do have some features already in mind for syslog-ng 4, even though the work on creating a long term set of objectives for the syslog-ng project is not finished yet. One of the themes that I have working code for already, is typing.
syslog-ng traditionally assumes that log data, even if it comes in a structured form (like RFC5424 structured data or JSON) is primarily textual in nature. For this reason, name-value pairs in syslog-ng are text values just as the log message as a whole. The need for typing however came up previously, most notably in cases where we sent data to a consumer that supported typing, such as:
- Elastic like other similar consumers use JSON, and attributes can have non-text types
- SQL columns have types
- Riemann metrics can have types
Read the rest of the blog at https://syslog-ng-future.blog/syslog-ng-4-theme-typing/
