Gaining insight from logging and tracing

When it comes to logging, I think that most Python developers fall into three main categories:

• People that always use print statements
• People that have extremely strong opinions and absurdly complex logging setups
• People that know they should not use print but do not have the time or energy to understand Python's logging module

If you fall into the second category, you might as well skip this section. There is nothing in it for you except if you want to criticize my solutions and tell me there is a better way.

If you fall into the first category, then you really need to learn to change your habits. Don't get me wrong, print is fantastic. However, it does not have a place in professional-grade web applications because it does not provide the flexibility that the logging module offers. "Wait a minute!" I hear the first-category people shouting already. "If I deploy my application with containers...