On 2018-10-01 09:32:58 (+0200), Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
* Илья Шипицин <chipits...@gmail.com>:
Here is an idea: combine log analysis with a web API. End of
problem.
that was what I was going to implement.
however, I do not like to implement thing that are implemented
already.
so, I did a google search and I asked mailing list.
seems, I need to implement rest api myself.
one more question.
I like text logs. they are fast, and available 100% (comparing, for
example
to some network logging).
is there a way (I did a seach already) to make logs structured ?
something
like apache access log (field with separator), json, xml, csv ?
whatever to be machine readable (to make rest api actually read it)
There isn't and it is one of the (very few) shortcomings of Postfix.
AFAIK
logging – as it is today – was hard wired into the code, which
means if you
would like to add a new way to output it, i.e. alternate format,
structure,
you would have to work your way through all the code.
If you want to go this route, I would recommend looking at libxo[0]. It
will still be a lot of work.
I'm not sure if anyone has ever tried to use libxo for logging though.
Philip
[0] libxo: http://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information
