Enabling JSON logging to ship logs to EFK stack

[shahamit]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are using version 2.7.0 in production. We want to ship zeeqs logs to the standard centralised log management stack - EFK stack (elasticsearch-fluentd-kibana). Our fluentd is configured to parse json logs. Current zeeqs code base does not generate logs in json format hence they don't get parsed by fluentd.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add logback-logstash-encoder dependency so that LogstashEncoder could be used to encode and generate zeeqs logs in json format. We use this library in all our microservices to enable json logging. We have been using version 6.6 of this library in production

[shahamit]

@saig0 - in order to locally try out where (in which pom.xml file) should we add the logback-logstash-encoder dependency?

[saig0]

@shahamit this sounds interesting. 👍

First, I was a bit confused about the name and expected a dependency on Logstash. But it seems that the encoder doesn't depend on Logstash itself and is for general purpose.

You can add the dependency in the app directory.