Feature #16638: Structured Data for Syslog

• Status: Open
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[rlafranchi (Richard LaFranchi)]

Syslog::Logger appears to conform to RFC5424, however doesn't support structured data unless I'm missing something. This feature would implement the ability to add some meta data along with the message.

A format of a RFC5424 message is the following:

<PRIVAL> VERSION TIMESTAMP HOSTNAME APP-NAME PROCID MSGID STRUCTUREDDATA MSG

where STRUCTUREDDATA is zero or multiple elements in the format of [ID1 KEY1="VALUE1" KEY2="VALUE2" ...][ID2 ....]

Per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-7.3 meta appears to be the appropriate id to use for arbitrary meta-information about a message, ex.

[meta foo="bar" cat="dog"]

Possible implementation:

logger = Syslog::Logger.new
logger.info "msg", meta: {foo: "bar", cat: "dog"}