[Asterisk-Dev] dev conf topic: better CDRs

[Kevin P. Fleming]

C. Maj wrote:

> Does it rely on parsing the manager "Newexten" events ?  It
> seems like this would be a route that can co-exist with the
> current CDR system.  I think those events spit out Unique
> IDs with everything.

No, this is an entirely different CDR system, with hooks all over 
everywhere inside Asterisk. Essentially, I won't be happy until my CDR 
database records every detail of everything I did with the call while it 
was in my possession :-) That does not work by just adding lots and lots 
of fields, it requires a multi-level structure.

Unlike ForkCDR(), this will be inherent in the pbx/modules/apps, not 
requiring the dialplan to create new records every time something 
occurs. It will also be more light weight (the secondary records are 
much smaller), and the secondary records will be identified so that they 
can be kept in order (since relying on timestamps is not adequate when 
many of them could be generated in a very short period of time).

I don't expect many people will be interested in such a radical change, 
but I don't feel I can operate my system without being able to track 
everything that's happening. I may never need 99% of the data, but when 
I do, if I didn't record it when the call happened it's gone forever.