Howdy,

Is there a good reason why is this not open sourced under Apache 2.0 license?

Thanks!

Logback only supports logging timestamp granularity of milliseconds, but you can log easily log multiple statements within the same millisecond which makes proper sorting problematic when searching the logs in aws logs insights.

I suggest a feature that will add a secondary timestamp field with micro or nanosecond precision to make sorting the log entries possible in logs insights.

It could be as simple as .appendToJSON("timestampNano", System.nanoTime()) to AwsJsonLogEncoder.encode.

What do you think?

We've been testing with ConsoleAppender (stdout) to write to the awslogs logging driver with a fairly decent logging load and we've been hitting some serious drawbacks:

• Really long lines hang the awslogs driver (a few KB)
• Characters get lost sporadically / overall data loss
• Throttling

We've been tuning the awslogs logging options:

• blocking vs non-blocking delivery mode
• ringbuffer size tuning
• timestamp format

Nothing that we tried could give us stable logs with ConsoleAppender.

Then we tried another appender that communicates directly with the AWS Cloudwatch API for PutLog events: https://github.com/pierredavidbelanger/logback-awslogs-appender

Instantly our issues were gone. Logging is super stable! Cannot recommend it more to avoid ConsoleAppender!