Volkan, I have looked at the PR and the only remaining thing I have an issue with are the changes you made to the logging in the cloud documentation. In my testing, only the Gelf Layout worked properly with an ELK stack. This is because Logstash (as well as Fluentd) are parsing the input trying to figure out where each log event begins and ends. They typically do that using some sort of pattern but by default look for newlines. This will cause log events that contain exceptions, which inherently include newlines) or other events that include newlines in the message to be broken into multiple lines in Kibana and make it impossible to filter on them properly.
Have you tested the changes you have made to the documentation with a full ELK stack and verified that all log events, including events with exceptions, are displayed correctly? Also, you will notice that the Gelf Layout includes a MessagePattern attribute that allows the message element to be formatted using the PatternLayout. Does the Json Template Layout support that? I don’t see examples of that in any of the template files if it does. If it does not, that is another reason I would prefer leaving the page as is for now. Ralph
