“the difference between a 20 hour journey through a code base and a short stop to immediately discovering the problem.” I had situations where the difference w

“the difference between a 20 hour journey through a code base and a short stop to immediately discovering the problem.” I had situations where the difference was between having an intermittent problem for months or years that nobody can figure out and pouring over logs for days and finding the problem. I do pretty extensive logging in my code and it has saved my ass many times. Before people complain about performance or storage problems I want to see hard profiling numbers. In most cases you it’s only a few places where the logging is causing problems and you can reduce it there. Overlogging is almost never a real problem in my experience. You can always discard log data you have but you can’t create log data you may need but didn’t produce.