open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java

Request "pretty print" feature for logging exporter

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#5,972 opened on Nov 9, 2023

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

Describe the solution you'd like I was following the getting started page https://opentelemetry.io/docs. I noticed the java logging exporter printing everything in single line, which is a bit hard to read. I think this would be handy feature to have.

Describe alternatives you've considered One workaround I can think of is to send the data to a collector to see some indented console logs.

Additional context screenshots are taken from https://opentelemetry.io/docs Java logs:

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Research direction
Examine the existing LoggingExporter implementation in the OpenTelemetry Java SDK and add a configuration option to enable pretty print (e.g., indented JSON) for log output. Look at how other exporters handle formatting.
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend
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2
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Half day
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Java
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