[suralind]

This is what annoys me in my current job - every service uses unstructured logging. We use a couple popular loggers in Go and still, people put values in messages rather than just make the message static and put all variables into, well, variables.

[XorNot]

These days I kind of wish we didn't do text logging at all. There's essentially two types of logs: fixed messages, and values.

A binary logging protocol can make this definition explicit and more efficient: you're either emitting a token for the fixed message in your applications format, or you're emitting values...and a fixed token for the format string, which can be parsed and reconstructed later.

Our applications don't need to be doing this sort of text formatting in them at all, and we need the developer interface to make explicit what's happening and what's important.