When integrating logging in an application, we need to decide what information to log and how granular it should be. If there are too many logs, we lose the ability of easily finding relevant information in the sea of noise and if there's not enough log messages, we risk missing that one important event. We also need to think about how to organize information in our log message so that it becomes easier to search and analyze it later. These questions lead to logging frameworks that are broadly divided into two categories: unstructured logging and structured logging.
Approaches to logging
Unstructured logging
The usual way to approach logging is the practice of logging events as plain strings and shoving any fields from...
