Structured logging involves producing log records in a well-defined format (usually JSON), which adds a level of organization and consistency to application logs, making them easier to process. Such log records are composed of key-value pairs that capture relevant contextual information about the event being logged, such as the severity level, timestamp, source code location, […]

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For a while now, I’ve been keeping a close eye on the structure logging proposal making its way through Go’s language proposal process. Last month an experimental version of the proposal was released under the golang.org/x/exp package (see documentation here) and I decided to experiment with it and decided to summarise my learnings in a blog for others to learn […]

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