From cd961ea209ba5eaa25c3ebae8a10430a079d8edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@amutable.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:48:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] report: use JSON-SEQ when outputing a series of json objects

We do this in our other tools that output a large number of JSON objects
in a potentially streamable way, hence do so here too.
---
 src/report/report.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/report/report.c b/src/report/report.c
index 281491c577c..3c2f89e0029 100644
--- a/src/report/report.c
+++ b/src/report/report.c
@@ -586,6 +586,9 @@ static int verb_metrics(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
         assert(argc >= 1);
         assert(argv);
 
+        /* Enable JSON-SEQ mode here, since we'll dump a large series of JSON objects */
+        arg_json_format_flags |= SD_JSON_FORMAT_SEQ;
+
         if (streq_ptr(argv[0], "metrics"))
                 action = ACTION_LIST;
         else {
-- 
2.47.3