Logging Best Practices

Expert guidance for production-grade logging based on Boris Tane's loggingsucks.com philosophy.

Core Philosophy

Stop logging "what your code is doing." Start logging "what happened to this request."

Traditional logging is optimized for writing, not querying. Developers emit logs for immediate debugging convenience without considering how they'll be searched later. This creates massive signal-to-noise ratios at scale.

The Wide Events Architecture

Instead of scattered log statements throughout your code, build one comprehensive event per request per service: