What does "structured" means here?

[fidergo-stephane-gourichon]

Hello.

https://github.com/kevincox/sog claims it is "structured":

Efficent c++ structured logging library.
Sog is an ad-hoc structured logging library for c++.

"Ad-hoc" and "Flexible" are defined further on, but "structured" is not defined.

Ad-hoc means that there is no predefined structure.

So, what did you mean by "structured" log?

Thanks.

[kevincox]

Structured means that you are logging key value pairs rather than simple text string. For example instead of logging "Sept 23 13:21 client.cc:78 Response recieved in 3.2ms" you are looking `msg: Response recieved, duration_ms: 3.2, timestamp: Sept 23 13:21, source_file: client.cc, source_line: 78`. This means that you don't need to rely on parsing the adhoc format that ends up getting logged and can easy do analysis on the logs.

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