Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Logging Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Cloud Native Logging (part 1, section 6) published by Manning. This book provides the practical framework you need to transform logging from a reactive debugging tool into a proactive competitive advantage, and it can be downloaded to read in its entirety.
As developers, we tend to write log details with ourselves in mind. This is fine in a DevOps organization where the development team also handles the ops. But many larger organizations may choose…