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Logging Best Practices: An Engineer's Checklist

In this article, we provide you with a list of 10 logging best practices in order to get your logs into a manageable and helpful state.

Effective logging not only streamlines troubleshooting by providing clear insights into errors and system behavior, but it also enhances performance monitoring by enabling the identification of bottlenecks and anomalies. These application metrics are even more valuable than the usual time-series aggregations, because they’re backed by the detailed log entries that you need to debug the errors and troubleshoot increased latency. Set up alerts for ERROR or FATAL level logs or specific conditions, like repeated login failures, high memory usage, or missing services.

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