Mike, thank you for your response. The Routing team tells me we can count
on the library-provided timestamp appearing in the second position. To be
clear, a full log message has two timestamps, one provided by the logging
library (epoch), and one that our Gorouter code prepends every message with
(human readable).

[2017-01-13 22:05:58+0000]
{"log_level":1,"timestamp":1484345158.9532504,"message":"starting","source":"vcap.gorouter","data":{}}

If you're referring to the human readable one, that will continue to
prepend the JSON object.

Etourneau, we've seen 10-20% improvement in throughput by swapping lager
for zap in this use case. There are still valid reasons for other CF
components to continue using lager, including features it supports that zap
does not. However, we don't have requirements for those features in
Gorouter, and performance is particularly important in this component. We
will be publishing a blog post as a sequel to one we published recently, in
which we'll share the tooling we've developed for exploring performance
improvements, what we've tried that worked and didn't, and our results.


Shannon Coen
Product Manager, Cloud Foundry
Pivotal, Inc.