don't remember where I heard about this, but this looks interesting. it's no longer funded but still actively used, for example
https://fedorahosted.org/lumberjack/it also seems to focus mostly on terminology, and making it extensible and adaptable to different environments, and relatively independent of transport, looks like.
http://cee.mitre.org/language/1.0-beta1/cls.htmlmore meant for logs but there seems to be an overlap in terminology, so might make sense to take over some of the terminology.
anyone familiar with this?