[asterisk-dev] Some wild thoughts about logging

[Russell Bryant]

Johan Wilfer wrote:
> What if we could tie (almost) every event that got logged to the specific
> call id? Sip history dump, notice's, whatever. Then you could dump it
> into a database, and when
> the customer calls again you could easily find the relevant information
> from the log. As of now I spend some
> amount of time in my /var/asterisk/logs/ comparing call numbers and try
> to understand what my customer did.
> 
> Also - you could easily delete info that is too old to be saved and so on.
> 
> What do you think? Let's do some brainstorming..
> Is this possible and how can it be implemented?

This would absolutely be useful, and has been discussed a number of 
times.  The first step is a _huge_ one, and that is to add an argument 
to all of the calls to ast_log and ast_verbose to include the relevant 
ast_channel if there is one.  Then, logging mechanisms could take 
advantage of having access to channel data.

I guess we could make the API changes in trunk, and then have the mass 
conversion be a janitor project ...

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Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.