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title: Open
summary: Open returns an endpoint corresponding to the given name. Names are case sensitive. Calling Open with a name that doesn't correspond to any logging endpoint available in your service will still return a usable endpoint, and writes to that endpoint will succeed. Refer to your service dashboard to diagnose missing log events.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/go/compute-sdk-go/rtlog/fn.Open/
---

**Kind:** Function  
**Module:** [rtlog](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/go/compute-sdk-go/rtlog/)  
**Package:** compute-sdk-go v1.11.0  
**Source:** https://github.com/fastly/compute-sdk-go/blob/d6bf71b04516ed72d6018cab6fff701a865f86e5/rtlog/endpoint.go#L18

```go
func Open(name string) *Endpoint
```

Open returns an endpoint corresponding to the given name. Names are case
sensitive. Calling Open with a name that doesn't correspond to any logging
endpoint available in your service will still return a usable endpoint, and
writes to that endpoint will succeed. Refer to your service dashboard to
diagnose missing log events.

**Parameters**

- `name`: `string`

**Returns**

`*Endpoint`