[asterisk-app-dev] ARI method of posting log messages to Asterisk

[Alistair Cunningham]

On 16/10/13 14:22, Matthew Jordan wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brad Watkins
> <bwatkins at thinkingphones.com <mailto:bwatkins at thinkingphones.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't personally see a need for logging functionality within ARI.
>     There are so many ways in any language you can think of to log to
>     files/database/etc. that complicating the ARI in order to pollute
>     asterisk's logs more seems unnecessary.
>
>     - Brad
>
> Actually, a few people (/me looks at Alistair and Lenz) at AstriDevCon
> expressed an interest in this functionality.

What both Steve Davies and I were interested in at AstriDevCon was the 
ability to do the equivalent of the UserEvent() dialplan application, so 
that there's a way to send a message from an ARI application through 
Asterisk to something listening on AMI (and perhaps ARI too). This is 
very useful when you have a complex telephony system with different 
components written by different people/companies but which need to be 
aware of each other's telephony actions.

 > [Oct 16 17:20:23] ERROR[20023] my_first_queue.py:1234: Oh snap! There 
 > aren't any agents! Bail - bail - bail

We weren't talking about ARI to log files specifically, but I agree that 
this would also be very useful to have, for exactly this sort of 
example. Having logging of all telephony actions in one place is a Very 
Good Thing for auditing and debugging purposes.

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