Experimental logs mode

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Feature name	Enable when launching	Description
Update the mode of the logs outputted in the console	./meilisearch --experimental-logs-mode human	Output logs as json

Meilisearch v1.7.0 (released on March 11, 2024) introduces a new cli flag to output logs as json.

Experimental feature

Enabling the experimental feature will give you the possibility to output logs as json, which should help in case you're sending your logs to a log storage solution like quickwit, loki, elastic search, etc, ...

Usage

Two modes are supported right now:

• human: Output logs in a human-readable format: 2024-02-13T17:28:11.427631Z INFO actix_server::builder: starting 10 workers for example
• json: Output logs in json: {"timestamp":"2024-02-14T10:33:22.439880Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"starting 10 workers"},"target":"actix_server::builder"}

./meilisearch --experimental-logs-mode human
# OR
./meilisearch --experimental-logs-mode json

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A few notes on the feature:

• When outputting json, all colors are removed, so if you were previously running a sanitizing pass to get rid of the shell formatting, you won't need it anymore
• There is currently no way to enable or disable this feature at runtime; you need to restart meilisearch to change its value

[macraig]

Update: v1.7 has been released 🐇