[Bug 64392] New: mod_status should offer JSON output

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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64392

            Bug ID: 64392
           Summary: mod_status should offer JSON output
           Product: Apache httpd-2
           Version: 2.4-HEAD
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: mod_status
          Assignee: bugs@httpd.apache.org
          Reporter: ralston@pobox.com
  Target Milestone: ---

The telemetry that the mod_status module provides comes in a human-readable
flavor:

curl --silent --max-time 30 'http://localhost/server-status'

And a more machine-readable flavor:

curl --silent --max-time 30 'http://localhost/server-status?auto'

Unfortunately, "key: value" pairs aren't particularly machine-readable without
help. For example, Splunk expects key=value pairs for textual data, so some
mangling of the output is required if the goal is to ship the telemetry off to
Splunk for graphing and other analysis:

curl --silent --max-time 30 'http://localhost/server-status' | sed
's/^\([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]]*\): /\1=/g'

Hoops like this could be avoided if mod_status supported a more modern
machine-readable output format, such as JSON, as Splunk can grok JSON directly.

Thus, it would be tremendously useful for sites who are pulling the mod_status
telemetry into systems like Splunk and Grafana. (And I'd wager that's the
primary use of mod_status nowadays: cattle, not pets.)

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[Bug 64392] mod_status should offer JSON output

[bu...@apache.org]

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64392

Rich Bowen <rb...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Rich Bowen <rb...@apache.org> ---
Thank you for your report. As part of an effort to clean up our issue tracker,
we are closing tickets that have seen no activity for more than 5 years. If
this issue is still relevant to a current version of Apache httpd (2.4.x or
trunk), please reopen this ticket or open a new one with updated information.
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