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That's good for debugging, not so good for analytics

• wayneftw 6y ago
  This article is about debug logging. Debugging is also the primary use case for logging program internals. Analytics should be done on non-internal logs (such as traffic logs), unless you're just logging everything to the same destination without any structure, which is probably a bad idea.
  • falcolas 6y ago
    Using analytics generated from logs is also problematic, because if the operations team decides a service is emitting too many logs, they will start pruning them, and not always from the aggregations service. Analytics instead should be a separate stream in most cases.