[](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/go-logfmt/logfmt) [](https://github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt/actions/workflows/test.yml) [](https://coveralls.io/github/go-logfmt/logfmt?branch=master) # logfmt Package logfmt implements utilities to marshal and unmarshal data in the [logfmt format](https://brandur.org/logfmt). It provides an API similar to [encoding/json](http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/) and [encoding/xml](http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/xml/). The logfmt format was first documented by Brandur Leach in [this article](https://brandur.org/logfmt). The format has not been formally standardized. The most authoritative public specification to date has been the documentation of a Go Language [package](http://godoc.org/github.com/kr/logfmt) written by Blake Mizerany and Keith Rarick. ## Goals This project attempts to conform as closely as possible to the prior art, while also removing ambiguity where necessary to provide well behaved encoder and decoder implementations. ## Non-goals This project does not attempt to formally standardize the logfmt format. In the event that logfmt is standardized this project would take conforming to the standard as a goal. ## Versioning Package logfmt publishes releases via [semver](http://semver.org/) compatible Git tags prefixed with a single 'v'.