Logging sucks
Published on February 19th, 2026
A friend recently shared this link with me: loggingsucks.com.
From the article:
You've probably spent hours grep-ing through logs trying to understand why a user couldn't check out, why that webhook failed, or why your p99 latency spiked at 3am. You found nothing useful. Just timestamps and vague messages that mock you with their uselessness.
Ouch, yes.
I'll be implementing Wide Events and Tail Sampling in my day job for sure. I already can't wait to actually have actionable logs instead of a big blob of anxiety inducing JSON.