Overview

LogBucket enables you to collect logs from your software applications and store them in collections.

Terminology

Log Entries

The incoming packets of data are referred to as log entries. A log entry is a structured digital record of system states and events generated by software applications.

Log entries conform to common industry standards. Each log entry contains a level, a message, a data, and a timestamp field.

• Level indicates the importance or urgency of the logged event (info, warning, error, etc.);

• Message contains a textual representation of the logged event ('file not foud', 'resource unavailable', etc.);

• Data contains a structured representation of key-value pairs as JSON. Example: {userid:123:email:'[email protected]'};

• Timestamp indicates when the event occurred as a standard Unix timestamp with a granularity of seconds.

Buckets

Individual log entries are collected in buckets. A bucket is a named collection of individual log entries.