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Building Microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468666
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nic Jackson Nic Jackson
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Logging best practices


In the free e-book, The Pragmatic Logging Handbook, by Jon Gifford of Loggly (https://www.loggly.com/), Jon proposes the following eight best practices to apply when determining your logging strategy:

  • Treat application logging as an ongoing iterative process. Log at a high level and then add deeper instrumentation.
  • Always instrument anything that goes out of the process because distributed system problems are not well behaved.
  • Always log unacceptable performance. Log anything outside the range in which you expect your system to perform.
  • If possible, always log sufficient context for a complete picture of what happened from a single log event.
  • View machines as your end consumer, not humans. Create records that your log management solution can interpret.
  • Trends tell the story better than data points.
  • Instrumentation is NOT a substitute for profiling and vice versa.
  • Flying more slowly is better than flying blind. So the debate is not whether to instrument, just how much.

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