Approaches to logging
When integrating logging in an application, we need to decide what information to log and how granular it should be. If there are too many logs, we lose the ability of easily finding relevant information in the sea of noise and if there's not enough log messages, we risk missing that one important event. We also need to think about how to organize information in our log message so that it becomes easier to search and analyze it later. These questions lead to logging frameworks that are broadly divided into two categories: unstructured logging and structured logging.
Unstructured logging
The usual way to approach logging is the practice of logging events as plain strings and shoving any fields from required values into the log message by converting them into strings. This form of logging is called unstructured logging as the information in the log message doesn't have any predefined structure or order. Unstructured logging serves well for most use cases, but it has its...
