Questions tagged [logging]
Computer data logging is the process of recording events in a computer program, usually with a certain scope, in order to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the system and to diagnose problems.
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Where to store application events used to monitor application usage patterns and behavior?
Suppose you have an application and you have an APM platform like Datadog or Application Insights that you use to monitor the performance and the inner workings of your application. Sometimes, there ...
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Approach to tagging/versioning builds of an executable
In a certain software project I'm involved with, (one or more) of the executables which get built to write logs, and it is customary/expected for those logs to include some sort of tag or version ...
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What is a log and what is a trace? [closed]
The words "log" and "trace" are used regularly for describing information, written to an external file during execution of a program, but is there a fix and firm definition? Some ...
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Python logging in shared functions called by multiple main programs
I have reviewed this, but it doesn't seem to address what I'm asking here. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15727420/using-logging-in-multiple-modules I want to have multiple programs call the same ...
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What is the advantage of log file rotation based on file size?
I understand that log file rotation is changing the log file you used when (1) one gets big enough or (2) at EOD, but I'm not sure I understand the reason for (1). I have never had any issues with ...
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Inheriting a logger
When you define a class, is inheriting a logger such as log4cxx a good design? Assume I am defining a class called MyClass. When I want a logger, I use a pointer to an abstract logger class as a ...
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Approach for comprehensive data/activity logging
I would like to be able to build up a log of user activities, capturing data such as who they were, where they logged in from, what activity did they take, and what data did they change (both before ...
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When to prefer print over logging?
Generally print statements are frowned upon in favor to logging. But are there any situations where I should prefer using print statements? In a interactive command line application, if I ask for user ...
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AWS and cron job: improve logging, monitoring and concurrence
In my company, we use a separate cron server to run mission-critical background jobs that run on a single ec2 instance: the whole platform is then vulnerable to anything going wrong on this instance. ...
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Should the logging utilities be exposed as public API?
In my library I've got a Logger class that is a wrapper around spdlog, that I use internally for logging. Logging is enabled by default in Debug builds and disabled in Release builds, moreover user ...
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Best practices for storing logs from worker processes in Azure?
We have a .NET 6 application that consists of a REST API running in Azure App Service, and long-running background jobs hosted in Docker containers. These jobs are triggered by messages in a message ...
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Logging, with optional foreign key cross reference
I am wanting to enhance a system to execute various background tasks (primarily data importation). In order to provide data for support, analysis and job status generally, I had been thinking of ...
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Should I use a global logging variable?
Over and over again we're told, "globals are bad" and with good reason. However, I'm working with a logger that needs to be accessible everywhere in the program. Why shouldn't I create a ...
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Cheap But Effective Solution for Logging in a private rest microservices backend api
I've created a backend following a microservices architecture and now I need to implement logging. my understanding After reading some articles about this topic, I've listed below some "pretty ...
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Optimal variable-time logging of a real-time data stream
Cross-posted from stats stackexchange Say I have a logging utility in my application that I use for recording timestamped diagnostic log messages. I want to add tracking of some performance metrics to ...
