Glossary
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A record of individual events.
Detailed entries about specific things that happened. Excellent for investigating one failure, poor for spotting trends, and expensive at volume. Log identifiers, never raw request bodies.
See also Metrics, Tracing, Observability
Being able to tell what your system is doing.
The combination of logs, metrics and traces that lets you answer questions about a running system, including questions you did not anticipate when you built it.