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+# Changelog
+
+## [1.0.0] -- 2021-19-12
+
+### Added
+
+- Initial release. Key features:
+  - Contravariant tracers, easily composable with parent context
+  - Concurrent-safe, simple, structured (JSON), stdout writer
+  - Generic definition of record of tracers for multi-component logging
+
+### Changed 
+
+N/A
+
+### Removed
+
+N/A
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
+==================================
+
+1. Definitions
+--------------
+
+1.1. "Contributor"
+    means each individual or legal entity that creates, contributes to
+    the creation of, or owns Covered Software.
+
+1.2. "Contributor Version"
+    means the combination of the Contributions of others (if any) used
+    by a Contributor and that particular Contributor's Contribution.
+
+1.3. "Contribution"
+    means Covered Software of a particular Contributor.
+
+1.4. "Covered Software"
+    means Source Code Form to which the initial Contributor has attached
+    the notice in Exhibit A, the Executable Form of such Source Code
+    Form, and Modifications of such Source Code Form, in each case
+    including portions thereof.
+
+1.5. "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses"
+    means
+
+    (a) that the initial Contributor has attached the notice described
+        in Exhibit B to the Covered Software; or
+
+    (b) that the Covered Software was made available under the terms of
+        version 1.1 or earlier of the License, but not also under the
+        terms of a Secondary License.
+
+1.6. "Executable Form"
+    means any form of the work other than Source Code Form.
+
+1.7. "Larger Work"
+    means a work that combines Covered Software with other material, in
+    a separate file or files, that is not Covered Software.
+
+1.8. "License"
+    means this document.
+
+1.9. "Licensable"
+    means having the right to grant, to the maximum extent possible,
+    whether at the time of the initial grant or subsequently, any and
+    all of the rights conveyed by this License.
+
+1.10. "Modifications"
+    means any of the following:
+
+    (a) any file in Source Code Form that results from an addition to,
+        deletion from, or modification of the contents of Covered
+        Software; or
+
+    (b) any new file in Source Code Form that contains any Covered
+        Software.
+
+1.11. "Patent Claims" of a Contributor
+    means any patent claim(s), including without limitation, method,
+    process, and apparatus claims, in any patent Licensable by such
+    Contributor that would be infringed, but for the grant of the
+    License, by the making, using, selling, offering for sale, having
+    made, import, or transfer of either its Contributions or its
+    Contributor Version.
+
+1.12. "Secondary License"
+    means either the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0, the GNU
+    Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, the GNU Affero General
+    Public License, Version 3.0, or any later versions of those
+    licenses.
+
+1.13. "Source Code Form"
+    means the form of the work preferred for making modifications.
+
+1.14. "You" (or "Your")
+    means an individual or a legal entity exercising rights under this
+    License. For legal entities, "You" includes any entity that
+    controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with You. For
+    purposes of this definition, "control" means (a) the power, direct
+    or indirect, to cause the direction or management of such entity,
+    whether by contract or otherwise, or (b) ownership of more than
+    fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding shares or beneficial
+    ownership of such entity.
+
+2. License Grants and Conditions
+--------------------------------
+
+2.1. Grants
+
+Each Contributor hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free,
+non-exclusive license:
+
+(a) under intellectual property rights (other than patent or trademark)
+    Licensable by such Contributor to use, reproduce, make available,
+    modify, display, perform, distribute, and otherwise exploit its
+    Contributions, either on an unmodified basis, with Modifications, or
+    as part of a Larger Work; and
+
+(b) under Patent Claims of such Contributor to make, use, sell, offer
+    for sale, have made, import, and otherwise transfer either its
+    Contributions or its Contributor Version.
+
+2.2. Effective Date
+
+The licenses granted in Section 2.1 with respect to any Contribution
+become effective for each Contribution on the date the Contributor first
+distributes such Contribution.
+
+2.3. Limitations on Grant Scope
+
+The licenses granted in this Section 2 are the only rights granted under
+this License. No additional rights or licenses will be implied from the
+distribution or licensing of Covered Software under this License.
+Notwithstanding Section 2.1(b) above, no patent license is granted by a
+Contributor:
+
+(a) for any code that a Contributor has removed from Covered Software;
+    or
+
+(b) for infringements caused by: (i) Your and any other third party's
+    modifications of Covered Software, or (ii) the combination of its
+    Contributions with other software (except as part of its Contributor
+    Version); or
+
+(c) under Patent Claims infringed by Covered Software in the absence of
+    its Contributions.
+
+This License does not grant any rights in the trademarks, service marks,
+or logos of any Contributor (except as may be necessary to comply with
+the notice requirements in Section 3.4).
+
+2.4. Subsequent Licenses
+
+No Contributor makes additional grants as a result of Your choice to
+distribute the Covered Software under a subsequent version of this
+License (see Section 10.2) or under the terms of a Secondary License (if
+permitted under the terms of Section 3.3).
+
+2.5. Representation
+
+Each Contributor represents that the Contributor believes its
+Contributions are its original creation(s) or it has sufficient rights
+to grant the rights to its Contributions conveyed by this License.
+
+2.6. Fair Use
+
+This License is not intended to limit any rights You have under
+applicable copyright doctrines of fair use, fair dealing, or other
+equivalents.
+
+2.7. Conditions
+
+Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 are conditions of the licenses granted
+in Section 2.1.
+
+3. Responsibilities
+-------------------
+
+3.1. Distribution of Source Form
+
+All distribution of Covered Software in Source Code Form, including any
+Modifications that You create or to which You contribute, must be under
+the terms of this License. You must inform recipients that the Source
+Code Form of the Covered Software is governed by the terms of this
+License, and how they can obtain a copy of this License. You may not
+attempt to alter or restrict the recipients' rights in the Source Code
+Form.
+
+3.2. Distribution of Executable Form
+
+If You distribute Covered Software in Executable Form then:
+
+(a) such Covered Software must also be made available in Source Code
+    Form, as described in Section 3.1, and You must inform recipients of
+    the Executable Form how they can obtain a copy of such Source Code
+    Form by reasonable means in a timely manner, at a charge no more
+    than the cost of distribution to the recipient; and
+
+(b) You may distribute such Executable Form under the terms of this
+    License, or sublicense it under different terms, provided that the
+    license for the Executable Form does not attempt to limit or alter
+    the recipients' rights in the Source Code Form under this License.
+
+3.3. Distribution of a Larger Work
+
+You may create and distribute a Larger Work under terms of Your choice,
+provided that You also comply with the requirements of this License for
+the Covered Software. If the Larger Work is a combination of Covered
+Software with a work governed by one or more Secondary Licenses, and the
+Covered Software is not Incompatible With Secondary Licenses, this
+License permits You to additionally distribute such Covered Software
+under the terms of such Secondary License(s), so that the recipient of
+the Larger Work may, at their option, further distribute the Covered
+Software under the terms of either this License or such Secondary
+License(s).
+
+3.4. Notices
+
+You may not remove or alter the substance of any license notices
+(including copyright notices, patent notices, disclaimers of warranty,
+or limitations of liability) contained within the Source Code Form of
+the Covered Software, except that You may alter any license notices to
+the extent required to remedy known factual inaccuracies.
+
+3.5. Application of Additional Terms
+
+You may choose to offer, and to charge a fee for, warranty, support,
+indemnity or liability obligations to one or more recipients of Covered
+Software. However, You may do so only on Your own behalf, and not on
+behalf of any Contributor. You must make it absolutely clear that any
+such warranty, support, indemnity, or liability obligation is offered by
+You alone, and You hereby agree to indemnify every Contributor for any
+liability incurred by such Contributor as a result of warranty, support,
+indemnity or liability terms You offer. You may include additional
+disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability specific to any
+jurisdiction.
+
+4. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+If it is impossible for You to comply with any of the terms of this
+License with respect to some or all of the Covered Software due to
+statute, judicial order, or regulation then You must: (a) comply with
+the terms of this License to the maximum extent possible; and (b)
+describe the limitations and the code they affect. Such description must
+be placed in a text file included with all distributions of the Covered
+Software under this License. Except to the extent prohibited by statute
+or regulation, such description must be sufficiently detailed for a
+recipient of ordinary skill to be able to understand it.
+
+5. Termination
+--------------
+
+5.1. The rights granted under this License will terminate automatically
+if You fail to comply with any of its terms. However, if You become
+compliant, then the rights granted under this License from a particular
+Contributor are reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until such
+Contributor explicitly and finally terminates Your grants, and (b) on an
+ongoing basis, if such Contributor fails to notify You of the
+non-compliance by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after You have
+come back into compliance. Moreover, Your grants from a particular
+Contributor are reinstated on an ongoing basis if such Contributor
+notifies You of the non-compliance by some reasonable means, this is the
+first time You have received notice of non-compliance with this License
+from such Contributor, and You become compliant prior to 30 days after
+Your receipt of the notice.
+
+5.2. If You initiate litigation against any entity by asserting a patent
+infringement claim (excluding declaratory judgment actions,
+counter-claims, and cross-claims) alleging that a Contributor Version
+directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then the rights granted to
+You by any and all Contributors for the Covered Software under Section
+2.1 of this License shall terminate.
+
+5.3. In the event of termination under Sections 5.1 or 5.2 above, all
+end user license agreements (excluding distributors and resellers) which
+have been validly granted by You or Your distributors under this License
+prior to termination shall survive termination.
+
+************************************************************************
+*                                                                      *
+*  6. Disclaimer of Warranty                                           *
+*  -------------------------                                           *
+*                                                                      *
+*  Covered Software is provided under this License on an "as is"       *
+*  basis, without warranty of any kind, either expressed, implied, or  *
+*  statutory, including, without limitation, warranties that the       *
+*  Covered Software is free of defects, merchantable, fit for a        *
+*  particular purpose or non-infringing. The entire risk as to the     *
+*  quality and performance of the Covered Software is with You.        *
+*  Should any Covered Software prove defective in any respect, You     *
+*  (not any Contributor) assume the cost of any necessary servicing,   *
+*  repair, or correction. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an   *
+*  essential part of this License. No use of any Covered Software is   *
+*  authorized under this License except under this disclaimer.         *
+*                                                                      *
+************************************************************************
+
+************************************************************************
+*                                                                      *
+*  7. Limitation of Liability                                          *
+*  --------------------------                                          *
+*                                                                      *
+*  Under no circumstances and under no legal theory, whether tort      *
+*  (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, shall any           *
+*  Contributor, or anyone who distributes Covered Software as          *
+*  permitted above, be liable to You for any direct, indirect,         *
+*  special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character      *
+*  including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, loss of    *
+*  goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any    *
+*  and all other commercial damages or losses, even if such party      *
+*  shall have been informed of the possibility of such damages. This   *
+*  limitation of liability shall not apply to liability for death or   *
+*  personal injury resulting from such party's negligence to the       *
+*  extent applicable law prohibits such limitation. Some               *
+*  jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of           *
+*  incidental or consequential damages, so this exclusion and          *
+*  limitation may not apply to You.                                    *
+*                                                                      *
+************************************************************************
+
+8. Litigation
+-------------
+
+Any litigation relating to this License may be brought only in the
+courts of a jurisdiction where the defendant maintains its principal
+place of business and such litigation shall be governed by laws of that
+jurisdiction, without reference to its conflict-of-law provisions.
+Nothing in this Section shall prevent a party's ability to bring
+cross-claims or counter-claims.
+
+9. Miscellaneous
+----------------
+
+This License represents the complete agreement concerning the subject
+matter hereof. If any provision of this License is held to be
+unenforceable, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent
+necessary to make it enforceable. Any law or regulation which provides
+that the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter
+shall not be used to construe this License against a Contributor.
+
+10. Versions of the License
+---------------------------
+
+10.1. New Versions
+
+Mozilla Foundation is the license steward. Except as provided in Section
+10.3, no one other than the license steward has the right to modify or
+publish new versions of this License. Each version will be given a
+distinguishing version number.
+
+10.2. Effect of New Versions
+
+You may distribute the Covered Software under the terms of the version
+of the License under which You originally received the Covered Software,
+or under the terms of any subsequent version published by the license
+steward.
+
+10.3. Modified Versions
+
+If you create software not governed by this License, and you want to
+create a new license for such software, you may create and use a
+modified version of this License if you rename the license and remove
+any references to the name of the license steward (except to note that
+such modified license differs from this License).
+
+10.4. Distributing Source Code Form that is Incompatible With Secondary
+Licenses
+
+If You choose to distribute Source Code Form that is Incompatible With
+Secondary Licenses under the terms of this version of the License, the
+notice described in Exhibit B of this License must be attached.
+
+Exhibit A - Source Code Form License Notice
+-------------------------------------------
+
+  This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+  License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+  file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular
+file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE
+file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to look
+for such a notice.
+
+You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.
+
+Exhibit B - "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" Notice
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+  This Source Code Form is "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses", as
+  defined by the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# contra-tracers
+
+## Overview 
+
+An opinionated, simple and easy-to-use logging library leveraging contravariant functors to provide structured multi-component logger capability to real application. 
+
+## Usage
+
+```hs
+-- Some HTTP log message represented as Haskell values.
+
+data HttpLog
+    = SomeHttpLog
+    | SomeHttpWarning
+    deriving stock (Generic)
+    deriving anyclass (ToJSON)
+
+nstance HasSeverityAnnotation HttpLog
+   getSeverityAnnotation = \case
+       SomeHttpLog -> Info
+       SomeHttpWarning -> Warning
+
+-- Some DB log message represented as Haskell values.
+
+data DbLog = SomeDbLog
+    deriving stock (Generic)
+    deriving anyclass (ToJSON)
+
+nstance HasSeverityAnnotation HttpLog
+   getSeverityAnnotation = \case
+       SomeHttpLog -> Info
+       SomeHttpWarning -> Warning
+
+-- Applications tracers, defined as a record of higher-kinded types. We
+-- have in particular 'TracerHKD Concrete a ~ a', which effectively makes
+-- the 'Tracers' record a plain record of tracers once instantiated.
+
+data Tracers m (kind :: TracerDefinition) = Tracers
+    { tracerHttp :: TracerHKD kind (Tracer m HttpLog)
+    , tracerDb   :: TracerHKD kind (Tracer m DbLog)
+    } deriving stock (Generic)
+
+-- The default configuration, setting all tracers to 'Info' min severity.
+-- In practice, you may want to obtain the configuration from a config
+-- file or from command-line options.
+emptyConfiguration :: Tracers m MinSeverities
+emptyConfiguration = defaultTracers Info
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do
+    withStdoutTracer mempty emptyConfiguration $ \tracers -> do
+        concurrently_
+            (myHttpApplication (tracerHttp tracers))
+            (myDbApplication (tracerDb  tracers))
+```
+
+<p align="center">
+  <a href="../../../CONTRIBUTING.md">:gift: Contributing</a>
+  |
+  <a href="CHANGELOG.md">:floppy_disk: Changelog</a>
+</p>
diff --git a/contra-tracers.cabal b/contra-tracers.cabal
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+cabal-version: 1.12
+
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.34.4.
+--
+-- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
+
+name:           contra-tracers
+version:        1.0.0
+synopsis:       A logging library built on top of contra-tracer to make configuring and declaring multiple tracers easy (via generics).
+description:    Please see the README on GitHub at <https://github.com/cardanosolutions/ogmios/tree/master/server/modules/contra-tracers>
+category:       Logging, Contravariant, Generics
+homepage:       https://github.com/cardanosolutions/ogmios#readme
+bug-reports:    https://github.com/cardanosolutions/ogmios/issues
+author:         KtorZ <matthias.benkort@gmail.com>
+maintainer:     matthias.benkort@gmail.com
+copyright:      2021 KtorZ
+license:        MPL-2.0
+license-file:   LICENSE
+build-type:     Simple
+extra-source-files:
+    LICENSE
+    README.md
+    CHANGELOG.md
+
+source-repository head
+  type: git
+  location: https://github.com/cardanosolutions/ogmios
+
+library
+  exposed-modules:
+      Data.Generics.Tracers
+      Data.Severity
+  other-modules:
+      Paths_contra_tracers
+  hs-source-dirs:
+      src
+  default-extensions:
+      BangPatterns
+      BinaryLiterals
+      ConstraintKinds
+      DataKinds
+      DefaultSignatures
+      DeriveDataTypeable
+      DeriveFoldable
+      DeriveFunctor
+      DeriveGeneric
+      DeriveTraversable
+      EmptyDataDecls
+      ExistentialQuantification
+      FlexibleContexts
+      FlexibleInstances
+      FunctionalDependencies
+      GADTs
+      InstanceSigs
+      KindSignatures
+      LambdaCase
+      MultiParamTypeClasses
+      MultiWayIf
+      NamedFieldPuns
+      NoImplicitPrelude
+      NumericUnderscores
+      OverloadedStrings
+      PartialTypeSignatures
+      PatternGuards
+      RankNTypes
+      ScopedTypeVariables
+      StandaloneDeriving
+      TupleSections
+      TypeFamilies
+      TypeSynonymInstances
+      ViewPatterns
+  ghc-options: -Wall -Wcompat -Widentities -Wincomplete-record-updates -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wpartial-fields -Wredundant-constraints -Wunused-packages
+  build-depends:
+      aeson
+    , base >=4.7 && <5
+    , contra-tracer
+  if true
+    ghc-options: -O2
+  default-language: Haskell2010
diff --git a/src/Data/Generics/Tracers.hs b/src/Data/Generics/Tracers.hs
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+--  This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+--  License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+--  file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
+
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unticked-promoted-constructors #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK prune #-}
+
+-- | This module provides a way to generically define and configure multiple
+-- tracers for multiple logging components.
+--
+-- This is useful in order to associate separate configuration (e.g. minimum
+-- severity) to tracers corresponding to different parts of an application. For
+-- example, in a webserver, one may imagine wanting to lower the verbosity of a
+-- tracer used for all HTTP requests, but keep the database tracer at a debug
+-- level.
+--
+-- While this is possible to do without generics, it usually requires a bit of
+-- boilerplate and repetitions. This module makes it easy to define one-single
+-- data object as a record, for representing both severities configurations and
+-- concrete instantiated tracers. Type signatures are a bit frightening, but the
+-- usage is pretty simple (see 'Control.Tracer' for examples)
+--
+module Data.Generics.Tracers
+    ( -- * Definition
+      IsRecordOfTracers
+    , TracerDefinition (..)
+    , type TracerHKD
+
+    -- * Construction
+    , configureTracers
+    , defaultTracers
+
+    -- Internal
+    , SomeMsg (..)
+    ) where
+
+import Prelude
+
+import GHC.Generics
+
+import Control.Tracer
+    ( Tracer (..), nullTracer )
+import Data.Aeson
+    ( ToJSON (..) )
+import Data.Functor.Const
+    ( Const (..) )
+import Data.Functor.Contravariant
+    ( contramap )
+import Data.Kind
+    ( Type )
+import Data.Severity
+    ( HasSeverityAnnotation (..), Severity )
+
+-- * Definition
+
+-- | A constraint-alias defining generic record of tracers.
+type IsRecordOfTracers tracers m =
+    ( GConfigureTracers m (Rep (tracers m MinSeverities)) (Rep (tracers m Concrete))
+    , Generic (tracers m MinSeverities)
+    , Generic (tracers m Concrete)
+    )
+
+-- | A data kind to control what's defined in a generic record of tracer.
+--
+-- Use 'configureTracers' to turn a record of configuration into a record of
+-- concrete tracers.
+data TracerDefinition = Concrete | MinSeverities
+
+-- | A high-kinded type family to make definitions of tracers more readable. For
+-- example, one can define a multi-component set of tracers as such:
+--
+--     data Tracers m (kind :: TracerDefinition) = Tracers
+--         { tracerHttp  :: TracerHKD kind (Tracer m HttpLog)
+--         , tracerStart :: TracerHKD kind (Tracer m StartLog)
+--         }
+type family TracerHKD (definition :: TracerDefinition) (tracer :: Type) :: Type where
+    TracerHKD MinSeverities tracer = Const (Maybe Severity) tracer
+    TracerHKD Concrete tracer = tracer
+
+-- * Construction
+
+-- | Convert a 'MinSeverities' of tracers into a 'Concrete' record of tracers,
+-- using a base opaque 'Tracer'.
+configureTracers
+    :: ( IsRecordOfTracers tracers m )
+    => tracers m MinSeverities
+    -> Tracer m SomeMsg
+    -> tracers m Concrete
+configureTracers f tr =
+    to . gConfigureTracers mempty tr . from $ f
+
+class GConfigureTracers m (f :: Type -> Type) (g :: Type -> Type) where
+    gConfigureTracers
+        :: String
+        -> Tracer m SomeMsg
+        -> f (Const (Maybe Severity) tr)
+        -> g tr
+
+instance GConfigureTracers m f g => GConfigureTracers m (D1 c f) (D1 c g) where
+    gConfigureTracers field tr = M1 . gConfigureTracers field tr . unM1
+
+instance GConfigureTracers m f g => GConfigureTracers m (C1 c f) (C1 c g) where
+    gConfigureTracers field tr = M1 . gConfigureTracers field tr . unM1
+
+instance (Selector s, GConfigureTracers m f g) => GConfigureTracers m (S1 s f) (S1 s g) where
+    gConfigureTracers _ tr = M1 . gConfigureTracers field tr . unM1
+      where
+        field = selName (undefined :: S1 s f a)
+
+instance (GConfigureTracers m f0 g0, GConfigureTracers m f1 g1)
+    => GConfigureTracers m (f0 :*: f1) (g0 :*: g1)
+  where
+    gConfigureTracers field tr (f0 :*: f1) =
+        gConfigureTracers field tr f0
+        :*:
+        gConfigureTracers field tr f1
+
+instance (ToJSON msg, HasSeverityAnnotation msg, Applicative m)
+    => GConfigureTracers m (K1 i (Const (Maybe Severity) (Tracer m msg))) (K1 i (Tracer m msg))
+  where
+    gConfigureTracers field tr = \case
+        K1 (Const (Just minSeverity)) ->
+            K1 (contramap (SomeMsg minSeverity field) tr)
+        K1 (Const Nothing) ->
+            K1 nullTracer
+
+-- | Assign a default value to a record of tracers.
+--
+-- This is useful when used in conjunction with 'Const' and a record of tracer
+-- severities:
+--
+--     defaultTracers Info == Tracers
+--         { tracerHttp = Const (Just Info)
+--         , tracerDb = Const (Just Info)
+--         }
+--
+defaultTracers
+    :: forall tracers (m :: Type -> Type).
+        ( Generic (tracers m MinSeverities)
+        , GDefaultRecord (Rep (tracers m MinSeverities))
+        , GDefaultRecordType (Rep (tracers m MinSeverities)) ~ Maybe Severity
+        )
+    => Maybe Severity
+    -> tracers m MinSeverities
+defaultTracers =
+    to . gDefaultRecord
+
+-- | This generic class allows for defining a default value to a record of
+-- functors wrapping some type 'a'.
+class GDefaultRecord (f :: Type -> Type) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType f :: Type
+    gDefaultRecord :: GDefaultRecordType f -> f (Const (GDefaultRecordType f) b)
+
+instance GDefaultRecord f => GDefaultRecord (D1 c f) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType (D1 c f) = GDefaultRecordType f
+    gDefaultRecord a = M1 (gDefaultRecord a)
+
+instance GDefaultRecord f => GDefaultRecord (C1 c f) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType (C1 c f) = GDefaultRecordType f
+    gDefaultRecord a = M1 (gDefaultRecord a)
+
+instance GDefaultRecord f => GDefaultRecord (S1 c f) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType (S1 c f) = GDefaultRecordType f
+    gDefaultRecord a = M1 (gDefaultRecord a)
+
+instance (GDefaultRecord f, GDefaultRecord g, GDefaultRecordType f ~ GDefaultRecordType g) => GDefaultRecord (f :*: g) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType (f :*: g) = GDefaultRecordType f
+    gDefaultRecord a = gDefaultRecord a :*: gDefaultRecord a
+
+instance GDefaultRecord (K1 i (Const a b)) where
+    type GDefaultRecordType (K1 i (Const a b)) = a
+    gDefaultRecord a = K1 (Const a)
+
+-- Internal
+
+-- A GADT capturing constraints as existential.
+data SomeMsg where
+    SomeMsg
+        :: forall msg. (ToJSON msg, HasSeverityAnnotation msg)
+        => Severity
+        -> String
+        -> msg
+        -> SomeMsg
diff --git a/src/Data/Severity.hs b/src/Data/Severity.hs
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+--  This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+--  License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+--  file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveAnyClass #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DerivingStrategies #-}
+
+module Data.Severity
+    ( Severity (..)
+    , HasSeverityAnnotation (..)
+    ) where
+
+import Prelude
+
+import Data.Aeson
+    ( FromJSON, ToJSON )
+import GHC.Generics
+    ( Generic )
+
+-- | Define a log-level severity.
+--
+-- +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-- | Severity | Semantic                                                                         |
+-- +==========+==================================================================================+
+-- | Debug	  | Messages that contain information normally of use only when debugging a program. |
+-- | Info	  | Informational messages.                                                          |
+-- | Notice	  | Normal but significant conditions.                                               |
+-- | Warning  | A situation that may become an error.                                            |
+-- | Error	  | Unexpected problem.                                                              |
+-- +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+--
+data Severity
+    = Debug
+    | Info
+    | Notice
+    | Warning
+    | Error
+    deriving stock (Generic, Eq, Ord, Enum, Bounded, Show, Read)
+    deriving anyclass (ToJSON, FromJSON)
+
+-- | Associate a 'Severity' to a typed log message.
+--
+--     data MyLog = MyLog
+--     instance HasSeverityAnnotation MyLog where
+--         getSeverityAnnotation = \case
+--             MyLog -> Info
+--
+class HasSeverityAnnotation a where
+    getSeverityAnnotation :: a -> Severity
