Hello everyone, I am transferring this email I originally posted in the dev list a few days ago to gather more feedback. To sum up: I am proposing to change the current logging format to a more consise and machine-friendly one-liner (when there's no stacktrace)
If you wish to see it changed, or not, please comment on the subject detailed below. Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> Date: 2018-04-04 15:17 GMT+02:00 Subject: [DISCUSS] Change Jenkins default logging format To: Jenkins Developers <jenkinsci-...@googlegroups.com> Hello everyone, Having worked on more things related to Jenkins logging recently, I've had the opportunity to remember my past pain when I was operating a Jenkins instance and sending logs to an ELK cluster. Compared to almost everything else in the infrastructure, the logstash rules for Jenkins logs were unnecessarily complex. The main pain-points, for me at least, had been the two-lines (sigh) per log default, and also the localized date format (or log level...). Even now, so many years after reading those, I still struggle daily to make sure I'm reading the right line/date associated to the message I'm reading on the line above. I would like to propose we change the current logging format behavior to a more readable and more operation-friendly one. This would result in something close to the following format: [ INFO][2018-04-04 12:40:49] Logging initialized @180ms to org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog (from org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log initialized) [ INFO][2018-04-04 12:40:49] Beginning extraction from war file (from winstone.Logger logInternal) [WARNING][2018-04-04 12:40:49] Empty contextPath (from org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler setContextPath) [ INFO][2018-04-04 12:40:49] jetty-9.4.z-SNAPSHOT (from org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server doStart) Instead of the usual: Apr 04, 2018 12:36:41 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log initialized INFO: Logging initialized @354ms to org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog Apr 04, 2018 12:36:41 PM winstone.Logger logInternal INFO: Beginning extraction from war file Apr 04, 2018 12:36:42 PM org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler setContextPath WARNING: Empty contextPath Apr 04, 2018 12:36:42 PM org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server doStart INFO: jetty-9.4.z-SNAPSHOT WDYT? If this looks interesting to people, I'm ready to file the associated JEP for it and possibly work on its implementation in the future. Obviously, we would need some way to revert to the "legacy" format, at least for some time for users to adapt. But that is not something I'm particularly worried about. -- Baptiste -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CANWgJS60enT9U8n4Mu1X7dmifixdnKoU0303GZwOKZCvQKeAhA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
