Monitoring Is a Pain
This isn&#x27;t an article, this is just whinging that things aren&#x27;t perfect.<p>&quot;Log Levels Don&#x27;t Mean Anything&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re not handling log levels correctly, you&#x27;ve just thrown away half the utility of logging. The author doesn&#x27;t even make an argument here, he just lists a bunch of different log levels and moves on. You should absolutely rely on logging levels in your applications.<p>&quot;No consensus on what logs are even for&quot;<p>They&#x27;re for an application to tell you what is going on. Come on dude.<p>&quot;Maybe I&#x27;m wrong about monitoring.&quot;<p>You&#x27;re not wrong (well, about being a pain), you just should get a different job. Monitoring is hard, yes. But it&#x27;s very beneficial, despite being highly imperfect. It just doesn&#x27;t benefit you to build your <i>own</i> monitoring stack. Pay someone else to do it, accept that it&#x27;s not going to be the Platonic ideal of computer science theory, and move on with life.