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I thought about having the ability to send the logs to Elasticsearch just like there is an option to send stats to Elasticsearch. I might implement that at some point.

The verbose option is mainly there so that you can debug/verify the trace log of bulk requests to Elasticsearch. It might be a lot of data depending on the size of your documents. I would not enable this option in production.

I haven't noticed verbose slowing things down dramatically. Are you logging to files or just to Stdout?

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i think gelf more reliable/universal protocol

yeah verbose is slow when stdout, my use case is docker container
it sends logs to stdout and then docker redirects it to graylog(gelf protocol)

it is better to have logs (maybe somekind error|warn level only) to analyze what went wrong

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It logs errors no matter what. I only logs the entire request/response trace when verbose is on. You probably should turn verbose off in your container and just use gelf for errors.

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@timansky just added release 3.6.1 to help out a little bit hopefully. You can force test of this error logging by inserting documents with incompatible types.

db.test.insert({foo: 1}); db.test.insert({foo: "abc"});
With this enabled you should be able to safely turn off verbose and still get enough info to determine what went wrong.

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thanks, will test.

PS
meanwhile i've asked for direct graylog(gelf) functionality because of mine method doesn't parse multiline messages

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Are you asking for logging in monstache to be done via something like https://github.com/Graylog2/go-gelf with new config option to specify graylog server monstache must connect to? Sorry I did not understand your request.

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yeap, this will be perfect

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@timansky can you please build using go get -u github.com/rwynn/monstache and then run monstache with flag -graylog-addr localhost:12201 or whatever your server is set to and let me know how that goes?

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scratch that, you can just try 3.6.4 now instead of building from source.

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@timansky I added the option to set -graylog-addr. Let me know if this is OK. Thanks. Graylog can categorized the message by the prefix right? I'm assuming it works like Logstash.

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