Software Telemetry

12 Standardized logging and event formats

This chapter covers

• The components of a structured logger
• Building support for a telemetry emissions format in your code
• Parsing the telemetry emissions format in your Shipping stage

This chapter focuses on emitting (and parsing) events from your production code. Chapter 2 was all about the Emitting stage in general, and if you haven’t read it, this chapter will make less sense. Standardizing the format of telemetry for centralized logging and metrics emissions makes your telemetry system easier to maintain overall. There is a clear up-front cost to building standards—especially if you are retrofitting standards into an existing group of software—but the results should provide room to grow.

Figure ...