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The Logging Dilemma

Every developer has lived through this scene: the adrenaline spike when a production incident is announced. That mix of dread about what you are going to find and frenzy to collect any piece of information that will let you understand and then fix the problem. It happened to me again a few days ago.

  • Logging dilemma causes frustration for developers during production incidents.
  • Team reduced log level to avoid debug log flood, but lost crucial context.
  • Dynamic per-operation log level implemented to balance information retention.

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