Logging

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. 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 Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about
0:34.0	logging. Logging is something that well we sometimes do just to debug and many
0:40.0	times people overlook the usefulness of having really good logging within your
0:45.0	application inside of both production and development environment. So my name is
0:50.0	Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is Wes. Boss!
0:55.0	Hey! What's going on? Not too much. I have been sort of taking my like logging a
1:04.0	little bit more seriously in the last couple of months just because I had some
1:09.0	like gremlins in my app that I couldn't figure out like where it was coming
1:14.0	from and what would even cause this request and whatnot and like I just didn't
1:19.0	have enough insight into like it wasn't errors or crashing or anything it was
1:24.0	just like good figure it out you know. So we'll talk about like what that is.
1:28.0	So I sort of went through and updated my logging. I'm still not like some of
1:32.0	the stuff in this episode where I talked about I'm not using it. I'm mostly
1:36.0	still just a console logger but well yeah let's get on into it.
1:40.0	Yeah. Let's talk about our sponsor today which is century.
1:45.0	They do so much more of that. They do performance. They do
1:49.0	profilings and now they are getting into session replay which will allow
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