Logging our server traffic
So far, our application does not log anything. This does not directly affect the running of the app. However, there are some advantages to logging. Logging enables us to debug our applications.
Right now, as we are developing locally, it may not seem like logging is really needed. However, in a production environment, there are many reasons why an application can fail, including Docker container orchestration issues. Logs that note what processes have happened can help us to pinpoint an error. We can also use logging to see when edge cases and errors arise for us to monitor the general health of our application. When it comes to logging, there are four types of logs that we can build:
- Informational (info): This is general logging. If we want to track a general process and how it is progressing, we use this type of log. Examples of using this are starting and stopping the server and logging certain checkpoints that we want to monitor, such as HTTP...
