fix: Map slog field names to Datadog-friendly format#110
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Let's put it behind a flag --log-datadog or something, so that systems expecting the standard slog structure will be fine. Is this actually a Datadog thing, or something specific to Block? If the latter...
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Add a remap config option to allow field name remapping in JSON mode,
enabling proper log formatting for different log aggregation systems.
Example configuration for Datadog compatibility:
```hcl
log {
json = true
remap = {
msg = "message"
time = "timestamp"
}
}
```
This allows Datadog to correctly extract the log message as content
instead of displaying the entire JSON object.
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Summary
msg→message(primary log content field)time→timestampProblem
Datadog was displaying the entire JSON object as log content instead of extracting just the message. This happened because Go's
sloglibrary uses"msg"as the default field name, but Datadog expects"message"as the primary log content field.