Kubernetes is undergoing fundamental changes in its logging infrastructure to emit structured logs containing references to Kubernetes objects and the context of a log entry. This makes logging in Kubernetes uniform and machine-readable, bringing more automation to Kubernetes monitoring.

Much effort has gone into enhancing klog and migrating Kubernetes components to achieve structured and contextual logging. Go 1.21 is adding a new standard logging package, slog.
We aim to cover a deep dive into the changes in Kubernetes and how they relate to the Go ecosystem.

We explore log collection via filelog receiver from OpenTelemetry Collector and other modern log collectors.

Furthermore, for contributors, we'd like to add some points for better collaboration with the WG: the effort affects the complete code base of k8s and needs collaboration between maintainers of different SIGs.