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<h1>Structured Logging with slog</h1>
  
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  Jonathan Amsterdam<br>
  22 August 2023
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  <p>The new <code>log/slog</code> package in Go 1.21 brings structured logging to the standard

library. Structured logs use key-value pairs so they can be parsed, filtered,
searched, and analyzed quickly and reliably.
For servers, logging is an important way for developers to
observe the detailed behavior of the system, and often the first place they go
to debug it. Logs therefore tend to be voluminous, and the ability to search and
filter them quickly is essential.

The standard library has had a logging package, log, since Go’s initial release over a decade ago. Over time, we’ve learned that structured logging is important to Go pro...

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