> Event logging or logging events?

This is pretty deep, and might be worth spending some discussion time on.

> Specifically, how/where our different systems log (or should log) their events.

What questions are we trying to answer with all these logs?  Which solution (EL vs. other logging) are we targeting to answer these questions?  Why do we expect it to be the better mechanism?  Are there actually multiple classes of problems that can be solved with a combination of implementations?


On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Event logging or logging events? EL is not for general-purpose
logging; we have kafka for that.

On 1 June 2015 at 15:22, Nikolas Everett <neverett@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I approve of looking deeper into this - its worth bringing out of the
> backlog and taking now because it could be a blocker for us to properly get
> all the data that we're supposed to get.
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> It should all be here, in the guide:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging/Guide
>>
>> I've filed a task for this, and put it in the backlog:
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101013
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 1 June 2015 at 19:25, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> > 1. Should WDQS use our standard event logging system? I think the
>>> > answer
>>> > was yes. Do we have or need a phab ticket to represent that?
>>>
>>> I'd be glad to look into this, is there any docs on how this event
>>> logging system works?
>>>
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