Error JSON Logging

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Overview

In order to make the error logging more consumable by standard parsing tool it will written in a JSON format.

JSON Design

    {
        local_time: <strftime output - customizable>
        severity: "ERR | INFO | WARNING | ..."
        subsystem: ""
        msg: ""
    },
    {
        ...
    }

Configuration

Added a new configuration setting for error logging under cn=config

nsslapd-errorlog-json-format: default | json | json-pretty

For now set this to “default”, but in a next major release it should be set to “json” by default.

When switching to a new logging format the current log will be rotated.

You can also customize the “local_time” format using strftime conversion specifications. The default would be %FT%T

nsslapd-errorlog-time-format: {strftime specs}

Origin

https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/6663

Author

mreynolds@redhat.com