Add JSONField to nautobot.extras.models.models.JobLogEntry for debuging structured data

[whitej6]

As ...

Austin - Network Automation Engineer

I want ...

The ability to have a human readable log message AND the ability to log structured data.

So that ...

This will allow for easier troubleshooting and clear delineation on use of fields in the JobLogEntry object

I know this is done when...

• JSONField is added to the JobLogEntry model
• UI is able to represent stringified representation of the object, log message, and JSON data

Optional - Feature groups this request pertains to.

• [ ] Automation
• [ ] Circuits
• [ ] DCIM
• [ ] IPAM
• [X] Misc (including Data Sources)
• [ ] Organization
• [ ] Plugins (and other Extensibility)
• [ ] Security (Secrets, etc)
• [ ] Image Management
• [X] UI/UX
• [X] Documentation
• [ ] Other (not directly a platform feature)

Database Changes

• Add JSONField to JobLogEntry model

External Dependencies

No response

[lampwins]

@nautobot/core what do we think of this in the light of v2?

[glennmatthews]

Could be done certainly, though I'm not sure how the JobLogEntry table views would best need to be structured to potentially represent both string/Markdown and JSON data in each log entry. I'd also be a bit concerned about potential bloat of the JobLogEntry database table if we allow storage of arbitrarily large JSON in each log entry.