You Should Use Structured Logging

Logging (i.e. exporting text data from your application) is one of the very first things that any budding programmer learns to do. Who among us hasn’t started learning a programming language with a: 10 PRINT "Hello World!" 20 END That’s a log! Not a good log, but a log nonetheless. And that is why the importance of logging in a systems observability is so often overlooked - everyone can log, it’s hard to log well....

September 28, 2021 · 4 min