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Subject: Re: Logging in a web server context
To: Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
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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 =E2=80=9Cmix and split=E2=80=9D method is a r=
easonable
trade-off for this use case.