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+# A more minimal logging API for Go
+
+Before you consider this package, please read [this blog post by the
+inimitable Dave Cheney][warning-makes-no-sense]. I really appreciate what
+he has to say, and it largely aligns with my own experiences. Too many
+choices of levels means inconsistent logs.
+
+This package offers a purely abstract interface, based on these ideas but with
+a few twists. Code can depend on just this interface and have the actual
+logging implementation be injected from callers. Ideally only `main()` knows
+what logging implementation is being used.
+
+# Differences from Dave's ideas
+
+The main differences are:
+
+1) Dave basically proposes doing away with the notion of a logging API in favor
+of `fmt.Printf()`. I disagree, especially when you consider things like output
+locations, timestamps, file and line decorations, and structured logging. I
+restrict the API to just 2 types of logs: info and error.
+
+Info logs are things you want to tell the user which are not errors. Error
+logs are, well, errors. If your code receives an `error` from a subordinate
+function call and is logging that `error` *and not returning it*, use error
+logs.
+
+2) Verbosity-levels on info logs. This gives developers a chance to indicate
+arbitrary grades of importance for info logs, without assigning names with
+semantic meaning such as "warning", "trace", and "debug". Superficially this
+may feel very similar, but the primary difference is the lack of semantics.
+Because verbosity is a numerical value, it's safe to assume that an app running
+with higher verbosity means more (and less important) logs will be generated.
+
+This is a BETA grade API.
+
+There are implementations for the following logging libraries:
+
+- **github.com/google/glog**: [glogr](https://github.com/go-logr/glogr)
+- **k8s.io/klog**: [klogr](https://git.k8s.io/klog/klogr)
+- **go.uber.org/zap**: [zapr](https://github.com/go-logr/zapr)
+- **log** (the Go standard library logger):
+ [stdr](https://github.com/go-logr/stdr)
+- **github.com/sirupsen/logrus**: [logrusr](https://github.com/bombsimon/logrusr)
+
+# FAQ
+
+## Conceptual
+
+## Why structured logging?
+
+- **Structured logs are more easily queriable**: Since you've got
+ key-value pairs, it's much easier to query your structured logs for
+ particular values by filtering on the contents of a particular key --
+ think searching request logs for error codes, Kubernetes reconcilers for
+ the name and namespace of the reconciled object, etc
+
+- **Structured logging makes it easier to have cross-referencable logs**:
+ Similarly to searchability, if you maintain conventions around your
+ keys, it becomes easy to gather all log lines related to a particular
+ concept.
+
+- **Structured logs allow better dimensions of filtering**: if you have
+ structure to your logs, you've got more precise control over how much
+ information is logged -- you might choose in a particular configuration
+ to log certain keys but not others, only log lines where a certain key
+ matches a certain value, etc, instead of just having v-levels and names
+ to key off of.
+
+- **Structured logs better represent structured data**: sometimes, the
+ data that you want to log is inherently structured (think tuple-link
+ objects). Structured logs allow you to preserve that structure when
+ outputting.
+
+## Why V-levels?
+
+**V-levels give operators an easy way to control the chattiness of log
+operations**. V-levels provide a way for a given package to distinguish
+the relative importance or verbosity of a given log message. Then, if
+a particular logger or package is logging too many messages, the user
+of the package can simply change the v-levels for that library.
+
+## Why not more named levels, like Warning?
+
+Read [Dave Cheney's post][warning-makes-no-sense]. Then read [Differences
+from Dave's ideas](#differences-from-daves-ideas).
+
+## Why not allow format strings, too?
+
+**Format strings negate many of the benefits of structured logs**:
+
+- They're not easily searchable without resorting to fuzzy searching,
+ regular expressions, etc
+
+- They don't store structured data well, since contents are flattened into
+ a string
+
+- They're not cross-referencable
+
+- They don't compress easily, since the message is not constant
+
+(unless you turn positional parameters into key-value pairs with numerical
+keys, at which point you've gotten key-value logging with meaningless
+keys)
+
+## Practical
+
+## Why key-value pairs, and not a map?
+
+Key-value pairs are *much* easier to optimize, especially around
+allocations. Zap (a structured logger that inspired logr's interface) has
+[performance measurements](https://github.com/uber-go/zap#performance)
+that show this quite nicely.
+
+While the interface ends up being a little less obvious, you get
+potentially better performance, plus avoid making users type
+`map[string]string{}` every time they want to log.
+
+## What if my V-levels differ between libraries?
+
+That's fine. Control your V-levels on a per-logger basis, and use the
+`WithName` function to pass different loggers to different libraries.
+
+Generally, you should take care to ensure that you have relatively
+consistent V-levels within a given logger, however, as this makes deciding
+on what verbosity of logs to request easier.
+
+## But I *really* want to use a format string!
+
+That's not actually a question. Assuming your question is "how do
+I convert my mental model of logging with format strings to logging with
+constant messages":
+
+1. figure out what the error actually is, as you'd write in a TL;DR style,
+ and use that as a message
+
+2. For every place you'd write a format specifier, look to the word before
+ it, and add that as a key value pair
+
+For instance, consider the following examples (all taken from spots in the
+Kubernetes codebase):
+
+- `klog.V(4).Infof("Client is returning errors: code %v, error %v",
+ responseCode, err)` becomes `logger.Error(err, "client returned an
+ error", "code", responseCode)`
+
+- `klog.V(4).Infof("Got a Retry-After %ds response for attempt %d to %v",
+ seconds, retries, url)` becomes `logger.V(4).Info("got a retry-after
+ response when requesting url", "attempt", retries, "after
+ seconds", seconds, "url", url)`
+
+If you *really* must use a format string, place it as a key value, and
+call `fmt.Sprintf` yourself -- for instance, `log.Printf("unable to
+reflect over type %T")` becomes `logger.Info("unable to reflect over
+type", "type", fmt.Sprintf("%T"))`. In general though, the cases where
+this is necessary should be few and far between.
+
+## How do I choose my V-levels?
+
+This is basically the only hard constraint: increase V-levels to denote
+more verbose or more debug-y logs.
+
+Otherwise, you can start out with `0` as "you always want to see this",
+`1` as "common logging that you might *possibly* want to turn off", and
+`10` as "I would like to performance-test your log collection stack".
+
+Then gradually choose levels in between as you need them, working your way
+down from 10 (for debug and trace style logs) and up from 1 (for chattier
+info-type logs).
+
+## How do I choose my keys
+
+- make your keys human-readable
+- constant keys are generally a good idea
+- be consistent across your codebase
+- keys should naturally match parts of the message string
+
+While key names are mostly unrestricted (and spaces are acceptable),
+it's generally a good idea to stick to printable ascii characters, or at
+least match the general character set of your log lines.
+
+[warning-makes-no-sense]: http://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/05/lets-talk-about-logging