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LOGGING SUCKS

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Traditional logging is inadequate for modern, distributed systems, usually providing little useful context for debugging issues. A shift to "wide events" or canonical log lines, which are single, comprehensive log entries emitted per request per service, may solve this problem. These events are rich in high-cardinality and high-dimensionality data, allowing for powerful queries and analytics instead of string searches.