Question: Does TinyLogger support standard syslog format so normal server web logging tools understand the output?

[macta]

I don't see any mention of TinyLogger conforming to the normal linux syslog format - https://www.atatus.com/blog/syslog-formats/ is this something we have to configure ourselves?

It seems strange, as the whole point of formalising logging would seem to be so that Smalltalk apps play well with others on a server?

[jecisc]

Hi,

It is possible to customize the timestamp format so this should be possible.
For now, it's not integrated in TinyLogger because nobody asked it :)

[macta]

Actually I've realised that to better integrate with web based server tools (where logging is helpful if you have a headless app running), its not syslog fmt per sei that you want, but it seems that structured json logging is what they all recognize. So really I think its a case of creating a json logger option that outputs things like this:

Transcript cr; show: '{"level":"INFO","message":"Some app output message","process":"MyApp","time":"'; show: DateAndTime now; show: '"}'; cr.

I think that should be easily doable - but I've not got time at the moment and have hacked my transcript logging (and may come back to this in the future). Thought this might be useful for anyone else looking.

Doing something like this results in searchable log format for tools like Betterstack e.g.