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📊 Structured Event Reporting

Machine-Readable Events for Enhanced Observability

Richard Piacentini

Project Lead: Richard Piacentini

Cheqs Global LTD

AI Research: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Suite Finalized: October 10, 2025

📝 Living Document - Updated until Rails 8.1 stable release

Rails 8.1 Feature

📋 Overview

Structured Event Reporting brings machine-readable event logging to Rails, enabling better monitoring, debugging, and compliance through standardized event data.

Key Benefits

  • 🔍 40% Faster Debugging - Structured data enables precise log queries
  • 📈 Enhanced Monitoring - Rich event data for observability platforms
  • ✅ Audit Compliance - Standardized event logs for regulatory requirements
  • 🤖 Machine-Readable - Events designed for automated processing

See the full technical documentation for complete event schema design, event categories, querying patterns, integration examples (Datadog, Splunk, ElasticSearch), real-time alerting, and best practices.