Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:56:42AM -0400, Anne Mulhern wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 03:02:26PM -0400, Anne Mulhern wrote: > > > What I'm wondering about is the existence of some processes (not systemd), > > > that have an > > > agreement on a set of key-value pairs that they communicate with

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-30 Thread Anne Mulhern
- Original Message - > From: "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" > To: "Anne Mulhern" > Cc: systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:01:54 AM > Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for >

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 03:02:26PM -0400, Anne Mulhern wrote: > What I'm wondering about is the existence of some processes (not systemd), > that have an > agreement on a set of key-value pairs that they communicate with through the > journal. There was work done on converting abrt to use the jo

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 29.07.15 15:02, Anne Mulhern (amulh...@redhat.com) wrote: > > systemd of courses uses its on its own, and we tried to document > > the fields we use in systemd.journal-fields(7), though it might be > > slightly incomplete. > > > > But yes, this is indeed API, and deserves complete documen

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-29 Thread Daurnimator
On 23 July 2015 at 23:17, Anne Mulhern wrote: > Hi! > > We all know that using the journald native API it is possible to enrich the > log > entry data w/ key/value pairs, although this facility is Linux only. > The set of key/value pairs which a message may log to the journal can > constitute an

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-29 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 29 July 2015 at 20:02, Anne Mulhern wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - >> From: "Lennart Poettering" >> To: "Anne Mulhern" >> Cc: systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org >> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:21:44 AM >> Su

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-29 Thread Anne Mulhern
- Original Message - > From: "Lennart Poettering" > To: "Anne Mulhern" > Cc: systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:21:44 AM > Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for > journa

Re: [systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 23.07.15 09:17, Anne Mulhern (amulh...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi! > > We all know that using the journald native API it is possible to enrich the > log > entry data w/ key/value pairs, although this facility is Linux only. > The set of key/value pairs which a message may log to the journal

[systemd-devel] Looking for experiences formalizing an API for journal messages

2015-07-23 Thread Anne Mulhern
Hi! We all know that using the journald native API it is possible to enrich the log entry data w/ key/value pairs, although this facility is Linux only. The set of key/value pairs which a message may log to the journal can constitute an API with which a logging entity can communicate alerts to co