Mastering Rust - Second Edition

Structured logging

Structured logging is a scalable and better alternative to unstructured logging. As the name suggests, structured logging defines a structure and formatting to your log messages and every log message is guaranteed to have this format. The advantage of this is that it becomes very easy for log aggregation services to build a search index and present any particular event to the user, regardless of the amount of messages they have. There are quite a few structured logging frameworks such as Serilog in C# that provide support for structured logging. These frameworks provide a plugin-based log output abstraction called Sinks. Sinks are how you direct where you want your logs to be sent. A Sink can be your Terminal, a file, a ...