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Logging Is Powerful

Explore how to write powerful and clear log messages in Rails to efficiently troubleshoot and identify application issues. Understand best practices such as including request IDs, disambiguating identifiers, and adding user context to logs to improve production problem-solving.

Crafting informative log messages for efficient troubleshooting and identification

Earlier, we set up lograge to change the format of our logs. The reason is that almost every tool for examining logs assumes one message per line, and that’s not how Rails logs by default. This matters because even the most underfunded production operations system tends to include a way to look at application logs. It might require using ssh to connect to the production server ...