I think that's the difference between a log and an audit trail. Parent makes a good point imo. Systems are now sufficiently complex that logging everything is

I think that's the difference between a log and an audit trail. Parent makes a good point imo. Systems are now sufficiently complex that logging everything is a useless indicator. And if you're only using a subset of your logging anyway (by generating metrics), why collect anything more before you know there's a problem. Tl;dr: avoid premature log verbosity