DeveloperWeek 2023

Brandon Nicoll, Software Architect, oak9

Logging and monitoring are two of the most important (only?) ways to determine how our software operates in the real world with real users. In an industry long absent of practices such as logging into production machines and looking around, how can we know if our software does what we ask it to do? Most importantly, how do we make it easy for our fellow developers to consume these logs in real time and prioritize the insights we gain from them? How do we encourage our team members to write log messages that provide actionable information? Here, we'll not only look at techniques for transforming log messages into love letters to our future selves, but also explore ways to expose these messages in clear and concise manners and additionally put them into the hands of the right people to solve issues as they surface.