Dave Cheney has an excellent post, Let’s talk about logging. In it, he dissects the current logging libraries, and what you really need. I pretty much agree with everything he says.
- Warnings are just more info messages.
- Log or handle the error — not both.
Where I disagree is with the error logging. It is distinct from info logging. It just needs to be actionable. if there’s an error, somebody needs to do something to fix it. See also Rob Ewaschuk’s Philosophy on Alerting.
As an aside, I’m glad to see that we’ve open-sourced our internal logging library as glog. It certainly doesn’t meet the criteria above, but it’s nicer than the standard library in a few small ways (like Verbose for developer-debugging logs).
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