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Discussion on: Five Reasons You Need Log Monitoring

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zakwillis

10 years ago, I consulted at a large financial institution and build a log file reporting solution which could monitor replicated global data loaders, instrument usage. Ultra configurable using C# regular expressions. It ended up in SQL a Server data warehouse I built, SSAS cubes and had SSRS subscriptions to persist the data for reports to show in their monitoring screens.
Fast forward to my last contract where I worked on a calculation engine and web application, I had to fight with the team to put a standardised logging framework into the application because somebody had built their own nonsensical approach which didn't even capture the stack trace.
Logging is essential and often the only chance a developer will have to understand what production applications are doing.

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Erik Dietrich

Ah, the old badly reinvented wheel. Ouch.

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zakwillis

Yeah. It happens all the time. I think this is how I look at development. Surely somebody has already done this - unfortunately not. But yes, so many reinvented wheels.
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