Software Architecture

The importance of good logging

Lately, as you may have noticed through my other posts, I’ve been doing a lot of migration and DevOps. I’ve had my fair share of problems and the fact that I was able to skim through the logs for clues helped me put everything into production. I want to discuss in this post the importance of good information logging whether it is general information for the user or errors occurring in the application. Often we see applications not having any logs or the logs they provide are poor in content. Every system is different; not every system is configured the same way and/or has the same applications installed. Here are some points that should be followed by every developer when it comes…

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