loggformater
Loggformater is a term commonly used in Scandinavian languages to refer to a log formatter, a software component that determines how log messages are structured, presented and serialized by a logging system. As part of logging libraries and frameworks, a loggformater transforms raw log events—timestamp, level, message, context—into a chosen output format for files, consoles, or log collectors.
Typical formats produced by loggformater include plain text lines, key-value pairs, JSON objects and XML. Structured
Loggformater implementations exist across programming ecosystems (for example, Python’s logging.Formatter, Java’s java.util.logging Formatter, and many third-party
Benefits of a well-designed loggformater include improved consistency, easier parsing by monitoring tools, and clearer diagnostics.