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If your logs are being spammed with the same message, while nothing else logworthy is happening, how many timestamps do you need in one hour?
by hgsgm 3y ago
If your logs are being spammed with the same message, while nothing else logworthy is happening, how many timestamps do you need in one hour?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoMost of the time, I'd assume all of them I can store (deduplication is fine, if I can recreate the raw data afterwards). Which is a lot, because they should compress well (in the limit, approaching the same size as deduplication solution). Sometimes those data points don't matter - like if they're generated by some program stuck in an infinite loop. But in other cases, they do - like e.g. if each message is caused by some event, like another program doing some processing, or user pressing a key, etc. - then timestamps will be useful to identify the exact cause (e.g. logs only happen when process X is processing mouse input, or when user presses one of 20 specific keys on their keyboard, or only when my microwave oven is running).
- unethical_ban 3y agoIt helps to know exactly at what interval things are occuring, and you lose fidelity with this style of logging.