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Re:My Logging Best Practices (2020) by grey-area on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:38PM (#28762759)
Writing verbose logs is very expensive.
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Re:My Logging Best Practices (2020) by worik on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:51PM (#28763868)
It depends which costs what.

In a case where there are plenty of resources and the thing you are logging is very heavy then even verbose logging is trivial.

If you are beset by failures it is much cheaper than making your developers guess.

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