Actually I think it's good idea to have two types of logs

Posted Nov 21, 2011 10:31 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Actually I think it's good idea to have two types of logs by Cyberax
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

I am very familiar with splunk, it doesn't parse the logs, it just indexes every word in the logs.

but back to my point. you can send structured logs via syslog today, there is even a standard to do so. People choose not to do this today, but that's not the fault of the syslog mechanism, that's the fault of the programmers.

As has been noted elsewhere, you can still make unstructured logs through this new mechanism, so the new mechanism doesn't give you structured logs any more than syslog does