More on logging changes in Juju 1.26.0

[Tim Penhey]

On 10/11/15 17:30, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On 9 November 2015 at 11:34, Menno Smits <menno.smits at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> In a recent thread I highlighted the upcoming change in Juju's logging where
>> logs from machine and unit agents will be streamed over Juju's API instead
>> of via rsyslogd. Two things came out of that discussion:
>>
>> 1. a desire for juju debug-logs to support a "non-tailing" mode (as per bug
>> 1390585)
>> 2. a desire for a tool to dump the logs out of the database in the case of
>> Juju being unavailable for some reason.
> 
> 
>> As always, questions and comments welcome.
> 
> will 'juju debug-log' and 'juju dump-logs' support the common --format
> argument or similar, allowing me to spit out the structured data? I'm
> mainly interested in spitting out a stream of JSON dictionaries to
> pass to filters and formatters.
> 

debug-log will (RSN™) but it doesn't yet

juju-dumplogs is a server side log recovery tool, and not for general use.

Tim.