In the apis that I am familiar with, there is typically generic, cross-cutting logging as a filter on all http requests, so you always log the "GET on /customer

In the apis that I am familiar with, there is typically generic, cross-cutting logging as a filter on all http requests, so you always log the "GET on /customers/123". This is a given, it's typically done by "add the library, one line of code at startup to enable it" While this technically qualifies as "Logging inputs before" it does not seem to be what the author is talking about. I was assuming that was present, and had been reached - cause if it had not, what request are you even debugging? Rather than some "«but it worked on my laptop» mentality" straw man.