Lexicon

Structured Log

Kind: technique

Layer: Observability

Record: lexicon:structured-log

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for writing log entries as typed fields, so they are queried by field instead of by text.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Trend Visibility and before Trace Span.

Category

  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability

Refactors

  • Unobservable Failure
  • Observability
  • Logging

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Observability / Auditability / Traceability