I just wanted to give you a heads-up on my work on ommongodb. During the past couple of days I have converted it to libmongo-client, which gives us a much more solid basis. I have also refactored it to some degree and adopted it to the new v6 config interface. Also, ommongodb will not be supported on pre-v6 platforms. This enables me to use the v6-exclusive features I am building now, especially great JSON and CEE support. Right now, ommongodb uses a very limited field set, and this set is hardcoded (so you can change it, but that means you need to change code).
My next step is to make ommongodb support the base event (as currently being discussed in project lumberjack). I will also provide a capability to add “extra” information from the cee field set. That’s probably not a perfect solution, but the goal is to get ready for some command line tools that are able to extract data from mongodb and thus make the system mimic it is a traditional flat-file syslog format. I have also asked Andre, the lead behind Adiscon LogAnalyzer to consider adding support for MongoDB to loganayzer. I have not yet heard back from him and don’t know exactly about his schedule, but I hope we will be able to make this happen very soon.
Only after that – somewhat hardcoded – work is done I’ll go back and look at JSON and templates in a more native way (very probably also looking at the contributed JSON string generator in more depth).