Journey from Common Logs to Structured Events!

Journey from Common Logs to Structured Events!

Jul 16, 2018

Journey from Common Logs to Structured Events! by Ben Hartshorne

Let's take a walk through the evolution of logging! We'll start back in the old times when people thought the pinnacle of debuggability was to put `printf("got here")` into their code, and gradually change a running application to emit better and better logs. We'll end with complete events, written as JSON structured logs.