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

[Mark Michelson]

On 10/16/2013 04:37 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> 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!
>

Coming back to this, being able to write to the Asterisk logging 
facilities from ARI ranges from useless, to meh (majority), to possibly 
useful. Given that no one said anything about how they absolutely would 
not write an ARI application without this ability, and given that ARI 
has much more pressing issues to take on, I'm going to table this for 
now. If the demand should arise again, it can be revisited.