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Comment by cowsandmilk

Horrid advice at the end about logging every error, exception, slow request, etc if you are sampling healthy requests.

Taking slow requests as an example, a dependency gets slower and now your log volume suddenly goes up 100x. Can your service handle that? Are you causing a cascading outage due to increased log volumes?

Recovery is easier if your service is doing the same or less work in a degraded state. Increasing logging by 20-100x when degraded is not that.

parent cowsandmilk 10 months ago

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