Hello!
I agree with what you say. The API we are proposing should be suitable for any mechanism of log storage because the reading and writing can be fully independent. Nothing with the exception of reports should be reading the data from log storages, that should imho help when dealing with any delay between writing and reading.
Nothing with the exception of reports should be reading the data from log storages
Well, that's the easy case. But we have two cases I know off the top of my head that make this a bit more interesting.
- "Live logs", which is only useful if it can read the recent logs, so it will need some form of API, or get axed. And I do think it is useful.
- Recent activity block. Also useful, can perhaps cope with a short delay.