[slf4j-user] FYI - structured logging wrapper for SLF4J

[Jordan Zimmerman]

Maple is aimed at logging, not serialization. As you say, there are plenty of libraries for that. Maple came about as I've used Splunk for log querying. If log messages aren't properly structured, it's very difficult to query against them in tools like Splunk and ES.

-Jordan

> On Oct 1, 2019, at 1:06 AM, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
> 
> Am 01.10.19 um 06:39 schrieb Jordan Zimmerman:
>> Hi folks. I wrote a library that might be of interest to the SLF4J community:
>> https://github.com/Randgalt/maple
>> Type-safe, consistently named and formatted, structured logging wrapper for SLF4J that's ideally suited for your logging aggregator.
> 
> Solves the problem that you want to generate structured log messages.
> However, you want to generate structured string data in other contexts, which is already done e.g. by JSON libraries; what's the advantage of having a specialized logging solution?
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