[QPID-2139] Usability of log messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Component/s: C++ Broker
• Assignee: Charles E. Rolke
• Reporter: Jonathan Robie
• Created: 14/Oct/09 15:03
• Updated: 14/Mar/18 02:56
• Resolved: 14/Mar/18 02:56

Description

Our broker log messages are currently ad-hoc, difficult to grep or read, with a bad signal/noise ratio. They could be improved as follows:

• Define log-level usage guidelines, document, and enforce
• Define user-relevant categories for logging, document, and enforce
• Design messages to be easily greppable
• Avoid logging redundant information. Log entry into a state / exit from a state, instead of redundant entries saying what state you are in.