The Golang team at Google has just released an experimental package for structured logging that is supposed to revolutionise the field of application observability.
Nice find! I'll definitely give it a try, cause I particularly like two features such as providing events context and hiding sensitive fields, which makes it viable for Auditing purposes too.
For the future, seeing where OpenTelemetry is going, I would expect a set of standard libraries by every most famous language to be compatible with their open log data definition, making it even easier to achieve centralized logging and correlate events out-of-the-box, agnostic by what language a microservice might be coded. I think the CNCF is giving a strong direction and vision there.
While, anyway, no matters what, we'll continue many years debugging with print lines like "I AM HERE!!!" while debugging ;)
I'm not an expert in open telemetry but as far as I know, the implementation for logs in Open telemetry is still in its infancy compared to metrics and traces.
Nice find! I'll definitely give it a try, cause I particularly like two features such as providing events context and hiding sensitive fields, which makes it viable for Auditing purposes too.
For the future, seeing where OpenTelemetry is going, I would expect a set of standard libraries by every most famous language to be compatible with their open log data definition, making it even easier to achieve centralized logging and correlate events out-of-the-box, agnostic by what language a microservice might be coded. I think the CNCF is giving a strong direction and vision there.
While, anyway, no matters what, we'll continue many years debugging with print lines like "I AM HERE!!!" while debugging ;)
I'm not an expert in open telemetry but as far as I know, the implementation for logs in Open telemetry is still in its infancy compared to metrics and traces.
Yeah, indeed it is as you say... I just wanted to highlight what I foresee it to be in a few years maybe, hopefully!
For now, we stick with great libraries like the one you mentioned :)