A rehash of an old blog post from February 2008. I thought it would make sense to give a quick update on CEE and put the link to the public discussion archives here again:

Well well well… I get so many questions from people about CEE. Where is it at, when does it come out, what will it cover? To be honest, I don’t quite know. I have some answers. We have been working really hard on getting a syntax, and a taxonomy working draft written up. I think it’s more than just a working draft. It will be a really well thought through starting point for the final standard around log syntax and taxonomy. For years (I wish this wasn’t literal, but it is), we have been working on this now. Took quite some time to get everyone on the CEE board to run into the same direction. I can’t promise any timeline for publication, but I hope it’s close.

In the meantime, if you are interested in the public discussions around CEE, the public discussion archives are available online.

I have also been working on an application logging paper that I just submitted to USENIX. If you are interested in how we implemented logging at Loggly and want to look at the paper, drop me a line, maybe I will share it.