Module Details: log_json (v4) - InspIRCd Documentation

The "log_json" Module (v4)

This module depends on a third-party library (yyjson) and must be manually enabled at compile time.

Once you have installed the dependency you can enable this module using the following command:

./configure --enable-extras log_json

This module provides the ability to log to JSON.

To load this module use the following <module> tag:

<module name="log_json">

This module extends the core <log> tags with the following fields:

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
method	Text	None	Required! This MUST be set to json, json-stderr, or json-stdout to use JSON logging.
target	Text	None	Required! If using the json method the location to write the log to.

Logs JSON messages to inspircd.json:

<log method="json"
     target="inspircd.json"
     level="normal"
     type="* -USERINPUT -USEROUTPUT">

Logs JSON messages to the standard error stream:

<log method="json-stderr"
     level="normal"
     type="* -USERINPUT -USEROUTPUT">

Logs JSON messages to the standard output stream:

<log method="json-stdout"
     level="normal"
     type="* -USERINPUT -USEROUTPUT">