Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.13.3
Description
By using the JsonLayout the following call:
String invoiceNo = "A12345"; long duration = 3999l; LOGGER.info("Invoice {} elaborated in {} milliseconds", invoceNo, duration);
will produce something like this:
{ // ...
"message" : "Invoice A12345 elaborated in 3999 milliseconds"
// ...
}
And for extracting the invoceNo and duration values from a log collector tool (e.g. Elastic) it is needed to play with patterns and regex hard to maintain in the log shipper (e.g. Fluentd).
It could be very helpful to add a new boolean configuration property in the JsonLayout element in order to enable the printing of the message parameters as Json fields.
After enabled this new property (e.g. parameters=true), the output JSON should be something like this:
{ // ...
"message" : "Invoice A12345 elaborated in 3999 milliseconds"
"params" : {
"p0" : "A12345"
"p1" : "3999"
}
// ...
}
In this way, it will be possible to extract that values very easily from the log collector tool, without implementing ad-hoc pattern/regex in the log shipper.
This feature could be especially useful for legacy code hard to change that uses SLF4J APIs for logging: extracting values from that kind of messages will be a piece of cake.