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

[Paul Belanger]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Daniel Jenkins <dan.jenkins88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Jared Smith <jaredsmith at jaredsmith.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Right now Mark is scoping out what it would look like - but if there's a
>>> collective 'meh' from the community, we can move on to more important
>>> things.
>>
>>
>> For general logging, I'm in the "meh" camp.  For User Events (or more
>> specific logging, such as adding items to the Queue log), I'd be much more
>> interested personally.
>>
> When I first read this, I was thinking "why on earth would you use asterisk
> for your logging", when your app can just log out however it wants to. so +1
> meh
>
> However, the more I think about it, with a replacement for say app_queue or
> app_voicemail, you still want the logs to be in Asterisk, even if the code
> lives in an external module. The way I see i, there's two kinds of apps - an
> app that I would make for my business needs - at which point I deal with my
> own logging, on the other hand you have the replacement for app_queue etc,
> which could be bundled with an asterisk package etc to still give "a fully
> featured pbx"; it's just that the fully featured pbx is made up of modules
> as well as the core of Asterisk.
>
Even in that case, I still can't wrap my brain around why want to go
into asterisk to get them? Maybe for a single asterisk box, but if you
are building out multiple boxes that gets old fast.  Any honestly, I
want to break stuff out from my asterisk nodes, they are dynamic with
a limited lifetime. So for me, I'll just dump all logging to a
dedicated box.

Alan's comment about being able to link everything together is likely
the key to getting logging where we need it.

> So I definitely see this as important, but it may not be as important as
> other things, I see posting JSON as more important than this... but I do
> absolutely see a use case for this!
>
JSON all the thing!

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