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> One thing that I've observed is that the more errors there are, the less likely people will look at them It can be even worse than that. At one point I work
by skipkey 3y ago
> One thing that I've observed is that the more errors there are, the less likely people will look at them
It can be even worse than that. At one point I worked on an app that generated north of 500 lines in the PHP error logs per minute per server. In the course of implementing a feature I cleaned up a few of the low hanging warnings near the code I was modifying. This resulted in about a 3 percent reduction in the log file velocity.
When we deployed to prod, everyone panicked, because log file velocity staying about the same was one of the primary things they alerted on, as a proxy signal for server health. That was the one and only time in my career I was reprimanded for cleaning up warnings.
- arp242 3y ago> log file velocity staying about the same was one of the primary things they alerted on, as a proxy signal for server health I don't want to bash on PHP like it's 2002, but ... that's probably one of the most PHP things I ever heard. I worked somewhere where people were against raising error_reporting because someone was in the habit of writing "flase" instead of "false" – which worked because PHP – and it wasn't deemed worth fixing :-/ Old PHP days were wild.
- blackflame7000 3y ago[dead]
- MichaelZuo 3y ago'log file velocity' ... that's one way to go about it!