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Took me 5 years to stop hating log files
Used to just skim the last few lines when something broke, always guessing. Started reading the timestamps in order around 2022 after a server issue in Dallas took 3 hours to trace, turns out the answer was 40 lines up the whole time. Anyone else still skip straight to the error message and regret it later?
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sanchez.mary27d ago
Three hours for a log problem sounds more like a process issue than a reading issue. If the answer was 40 lines up, that's still a needle in a haystack unless you know what to look for. I just grep for the error code and move on.
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