Log Management — What to Log, Where to Log
Build a practical logging strategy that helps you debug problems without drowning in noise.
When your application is running on localhost, debugging is easy. You add console.log, check the terminal, and move on. When your application is running in production across multiple serverless functions, serving hundreds of requests per minute, console.log doesn't cut it anymore.
Where do those logs go? How do you find the one log line you need among millions? How do you correlate a user's complaint with the specific request that failed? And how do you avoid logging so much that you can't find anything useful, or so little that you're flying blind?
That's what log management is about: turning the firehose of application output into a searchable, useful tool for understanding what your application is doing.
What Logging Is (and Isn't)
Logging is recording events that happen in
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