How to Instrument Your Application for Effective Logging
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In today’s complex development landscape, logging is more than a debugging tool—it's essential for gaining insights into an application’s behavior, ensuring security, and maintaining performance. Logging gives teams the information needed to diagnose issues, optimize systems, and make data-driven decisions. However, simply generating logs isn’t enough. Effective logging requires intentional, strategic instrumentation to ensure logs are useful, actionable, and efficient.
This guide covers best practices for instrumenting your application to generate logs that maximize the value of monitoring and troubleshooting efforts without overwhelming your system or team.