InfluxDB 1.5 introduces significant logging improvements to simplify the analysis of log data for troubleshooting purposes. Structured logging allows for easier extraction of specific elements from log events, enabling efficient parsing and analysis with off-the-shelf tooling. The new configuration options improve collating log events and enable HTTP access logs to be written to a separate file, allowing standard HTTP log analysis and monitoring tools to parse the data without further processing. These changes aim to reduce the time required to diagnose issues by providing more valuable insights from log data.