For the cloud-native transformation of Couchbase, we had to do something about our logs. We had various logs scattered around from different language binaries (Java, Erlang, C, etc.) and in different formats with none fit for “human consumption”.
If you’ve ever started tearing your hair out over differing log formats then this is the talk for you! If you have ever tried to understand what a developer was thinking when adding a log over multiple lines then this is also the talk for you! We include some specific examples of difficult logs and how we solved them with no change to the log itself.
Pragmatism was essential:
- We did not have the resources to refactor every log statement across all these teams/codebases.
- We needed to support an approach that allowed us to provide an out-of-the box solution but also easy integration with anything already deployed.
- We had a desire to focus on CNCF or at least open source solutions that are loosely coupled to lower the limits for adoption.
A blog post covering more in-depth examples to support this presentation can be found
here.
