[feature] save log files as json

[jaepetto]

It would be really nice to be able to select the output format of the logs as JSON.
This would make the integration with the prometheus / loki / grafana stack a lot easier.

Being able to push / save the prometheus metrics is great from a monitoring standpoint. However, the logs are harder (since the fields are not mapped) to ingest into Loki.

[creativeprojects]

I'll keep it in mind during the refactoring of the logs.
There's a long standing PR on parsing all the logs coming from restic: I'll have to finish it at some point 😢

Spoiler alert: there are a lot of logs to convert 😆

[jaepetto]

Thanks for the quick reply. I really wish I could help!
Unfortunately, I'm more of a python guy and my knowledge of Go is not there yet...