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choice of severity levels? #33

Open jaredhirsch opened 9 years ago

jaredhirsch commented 9 years ago

syslog gives us emerg, alert, crit, err, warn, notice, info, debug. These log levels have well-defined and widely understood (by ops type people) meanings. If intel is going to provide a standard set of hierarchical loggers, why not those?

seanmonstar commented 9 years ago

They're less understandable to me. I don't know what to do with so many high-severity levels. And I found it's useful to have noiser levels than debug.

@6a68 are you using mozlog?

jaredhirsch commented 9 years ago

yup, chronicle is using it. one of the things I'd like to do is map bad stuff to pagerduty, which I can do with the current set of log levels, but I dislike having to tell ops people "I'm going to log using a random subset of the syslog levels, but they mean totally different things, since the highest severity ones are missing"

seanmonstar commented 9 years ago

Fair enough. I'd welcome a intel.setLevels() method...

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 10:55 AM Jared Hirsch notifications@github.com wrote:

yup, chronicle is using it. one of the things I'd like to do is map bad stuff to pagerduty, which I can do with the current set of log levels, but I dislike having to tell ops people "I'm going to log using a random subset of the syslog levels, but they mean totally different things, since the highest severity ones are missing"

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