Bring Your Own Bytecode to the Logging Party

Explore the innovative approach to logging in modern distributed systems presented in this 21-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023. Discover how Guba Sándor and Dudas Adam from Cisco address the challenges of handling, searching, transforming, and extracting data from logs in complex architectures. Learn about the Logging Operator and its role in simplifying logging pipelines. Delve into the potential of WebAssembly (WASM) for creating portable code and its application in logging systems. Understand the benefits of a specialized plugin system for logging purposes, which allows for running identical plugins in both browser and backend environments. Gain insights into how this approach can significantly reduce the time from planning to production and enable testing on live streamed data.