Tips from the Team

Node.js Logging – How to Get Started

Last updated: September 2024

Node.js may be the run-time environment that lets you use a single programming language (JavaScript) for both server-side and client-side applications, but it has no shortage of logging methods. Even though there are clearly delineated trade-offs with each of the logging techniques, if you’re a newcomer, it can be difficult to make sense of them and to know which one is right for your environment.

A Guide to Log Filtering: Tips for IT Pros

Last updated: September 2024

As an IT professional, you’ll find log messages are one way to catch errors and solve your problems. As much as log messages are helpful, they can be confusing because a lot of messages—even the log messages you don’t need to see—are generated by the server. Instead of making your life easier, log messages can make things harder for you because unnecessary error messages are being logged.

Windows Event Log Filtering Techniques

Last updated: September 2024

Logs are a ubiquitous component of IT. They come in all shapes and sizes from a wide variety of sources and possible destinations. But at the end of the day, all types of logging serve a fundamental role in a technological infrastructure: they allow a system to record information about its behavior to a persistent medium. People can then look at this information and reconstruct what happened so they can detect and fix whatever issues they might find.

What Your Router Logs Say About Your Network

Last updated: September 2024

Routers play a key role in any network. If you’re like most network engineers, you usually spend most of the time working with routers (as opposed to other network devices). In smaller networks, routers may even be the only devices managing traffic. Router logs can tell you a lot about your network. In this post, we’ll walk through how to analyze router logs efficiently.

8 Python Logging Pitfalls to Avoid

Last updated: September 2024

Logging is crucial in software development, so it’s vital to get it right. That’s easier said than done, unfortunately. Application logging—Python logging included—is riddled with traps you might fall prey to if you aren’t careful.

But you can’t beware what you don’t know, and that’s where this post comes in handy. We’re here to warn you about eight of the most common logging pitfalls in Python. You’ll learn about each problem and techniques and tools you can use to avoid it.

Guide to Debugging Ruby on Rails Applications

Last updated: August 2024

There are many methods to help you avoid bugs in your application. You can use linters, write tests, or use an IDE, which will help you spot bugs early in the coding phase. However, no matter how good you are at preventing bugs, they will always happen. And it may not have anything to do with you. You could get hit by a bug in the third-party library you use. Therefore, as important as bug prevention is, it’s also crucial to know the debugging process well.

In this post, you’ll learn how to debug Ruby on Rails applications.

How to Optimize .NET Error Logging

Last updated: August 2024

Like most developers, you’ve seen the benefits of logging first-hand—the right log message can be the key to unlocking the trickiest of software issues. However, not all logging is created equal, and actionable logs don’t magically appear. If you want the best logs, you must optimize your approach using tried-and-true best practices.

In this article, we’ll look at ways to improve your .NET error logging and make it easy to write logs containing vital information to help you troubleshoot your .NET apps and services.

Prerequisites

Before diving into optimizing your .NET error logging, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:

Basic Knowledge of .NET Framework: Understand the .NET framework and how to integrate logging libraries into your applications.

Understanding of Logging Concepts: Familiarize yourself with logging concepts, including log levels, log messages, and log destinations.

Best Tips for Monitoring and Filtering Your Web Server Logs

Last updated: August 2024

Server logs are essential and can never be left out of web development. There’s no such thing as a perfect website—even one owned by a big tech company is likely to have errors in production. Using web server logs, you can easily know where the problem is coming from and solve it on time. Hence, they are quite important when monitoring and filtering your web server.

In this post, I’m going to talk about what web server logs are, why you need to log your website page, how and the various types of logs. Moreover, I will also provide practical tips on monitoring and filtering web server logs using not just the Tail and egrep Commands but also the NGINX Server and get the most value out of them.

Seven Typical Problems With Logging Ruby (And How to Solve Them)

Last updated: August 2024

If your application uses Ruby, there are multiple ways to write log messages, each with various degrees of ease-of-use and control. Yet all these methods come with known issues that can derail your attempts to diagnose software issues and assist your Ruby troubleshooting.

Diving Into Docker Logs: The Last 100 Lines Lowdown

If you’re knee-deep in Docker containers (like most of us these days), you know the drill: something goes sideways, and it’s up to us to play detective. The first place we’re diving? The logs, specifically those last 100 lines where the juicy bits hide.