I don't have the ticket on hand, but a few months ago, Remko suggested a binary logging format that would allow for super fast appends of log-specific information along with companion files for additional metadata not commonly used in log messages. I've been thinking about this idea a bit in relation to existing structured layouts (both textual and binary), and I was thinking that it might be a useful format to standardize on for all the logging projects.
What I'd like to propose is making another component in the project that would contain a reference implementation of encoding and decoding the format in Java, C++, .NET, and PHP (or as a C binding for PHP). Potentially, this format could be inclusive with other logging projects like Logstash, Logback, Splunk, etc. What do you all think? Is this a good idea? Or would this be duplicating effort from other standards already? -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
