alt Hacker NewsI have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring.
eg. log level WARN, message "This error is...", but it then trips an error in monitoring and pages out.
Probably breaching multiple rules here around not parsing logs like that, etc. But it's cropped up so many times I get quite annoyed by it.
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jonathrg • yesterday at 4:48 PM
Stuff like that is a good argument for using structured logging, but even if you are just parsing text logs, surely you can make the parser be a bit more specific when retrieving the log level.
> I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring.
If your parsing, filtering, and monitoring setup parses strings that happen to correspond to log level names in positions other than that of log levels as having the semantics of log levels, then that's a parsing/filtering error, not a logging error.