In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps and packages to help with logging.

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Show Notes

00:25 Welcome
01:37 Sponsor: Sentry
02:16 What is logging? Why log?
04:59 Logging isn’t just for debugging
08:22 What do we log?
13:34 What not to log
14:58 Development, staging, and production
17:36 Logging bots
19:33 Where to put logs
20:59 How to log
Log Tail
Paper Trail
Sematext Logs
DataDog
Winston
Pino

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