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https://www.rust-lang.org/what/cli
What needs to be fixed?
I am not English mother tongue so it's not clear to me the connection between logging (the act of recording output from software to inspect what's happening) and a log (a piece of wood).
Suggested Improvement
Representing concepts in a way that are familiar to a restricted culture group is a well-known UI issue. Perhaps a more relevant icon could be found to represent data logging?
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senekor commentedon Jun 13, 2025
Logging is a bit abstract, I'm struggling to think of a good visual representation.
senekor commentedon Jun 13, 2025
What about a seismograph? could be a nice symbol of continuous collection of data.
Manishearth commentedon Jun 13, 2025
That should be fine!
apiraino commentedon Jun 13, 2025
Based on a bit of sampling of companies (or projects) offering data logging1 it seems that a common visual representation are histograms and graphs (so basically the seismograph idea could fit) or some text resembling the Common Log Format optionally with a magnifying lens over them.
not a qualified visual designer, just throwing ideas 🙂
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https://www.datadoghq.com, https://matomo.org, https://plausible.io, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=server+logs+analysis+clipart&iar=images ↩