💡 Gzip logs with Content-Encoding

[AurelienGasser]

HTTP payloads sent to e.g. /api/v2/logs often contain redundant information. For instance, when sending multiple lines of logs, each log line includes near-identical metadata.

Adding an option to gzip the HTTP request body would reduce bandwidth usage on the client side. This would be useful in a number of scenarios, in particular when sending browser logs from mobile clients.

To be clear, I propose to add a new configuration option to:

1. Add the following HTTP request header

Content-Encoding: gzip

2. gzip the HTTP request body

[BenoitZugmeyer]

Thanks for the feedback. We are currently working on it! It's a lot harder than it looks, but it's coming.