The recent GitHub issue #6251 marks another step in our ongoing modernization work. The topic sounds narrow — enhancements for mmjsontransform — but it connects to a much larger theme: how rsyslog handles structured data and how we can make that power easier to use.
From Stream to Lake: Thinking About rsyslog as the River System Behind Your Data
I recently had a discussion about data lakes. It made me realize that people often picture them as the starting point of data collection — as if all information somehow appears in the lake. In reality, no lake exists without rivers. And in the world of IT systems, rsyslog is part of that river system.

