The log line you skipped is the outage you cannot explain.
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A log line is a letter to whoever is debugging this incident at 3am. The signal-to-noise ratio of the log determines whether that letter is useful or just more weather to scroll past.
Good logging is not more logging. It is the right log, at the right level, with the right correlation IDs, written by someone who imagined the future stranger reading it under pressure.
Write logs as if your future self is grateful. Sometimes you will be.
