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From: "Carl Winbäck" <c@tunnel53.net>
To: Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: Logging in a web server context
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:06:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsCw1P9jSsCh7UM2CgCm4yetNJLbNpHLoYi=z9eHNedWB5L2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em7ab27d1a-11fb-4e18-b0ed-f78490d3a6d5@elzian>

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 14:53, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>   I'm generally not a fan of fan-in fan-out mechanisms (pun unintended),
> because it's a lot easier to mix data than to triage it, so if data
> streams are separated early, mixing them to transmit them over one
> channel then parsing the data to separate it into several streams again
> is wasteful. Having the ability to keep service-specific log stream
> rather than conflating everything into a global logger is one of the
> big advantages of the s6 logging infrastructure over the syslog model.

I agree with your reservations. But as you concluded, given the
currently available tools the “mix and split” method is a reasonable
trade-off for this use case.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-14 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-13  8:41 Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 10:04 ` Casper Ti. Vector
2020-06-13 10:50   ` Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 11:32     ` Casper Ti. Vector
2020-06-13 12:40       ` Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 10:59 ` Jan Braun
2020-06-13 11:17   ` Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 12:42   ` Laurent Bercot
2020-06-13 12:53     ` Laurent Bercot
2020-06-14 12:06       ` Carl Winbäck [this message]
2020-06-14 12:02     ` Carl Winbäck
     [not found] ` <20200613100522.jvixsd6fnokz3fh2@bstg>
2020-06-13 12:17   ` Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 12:30     ` Carl Winbäck
2020-06-13 18:51 ` Steve Litt
2020-06-13 19:29   ` yianiris
2020-06-15  4:19 ` Colin Booth

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