Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Making logging your trusted ally

Time and time again, logging always proves to be an invaluable resource for investigating the root cause of a problem in contemporary computer software. However, in the context of a microservice-based architecture, where requests cross service boundaries, being able to collect, correlate, and search the log entries that are emitted by each individual service is of paramount importance.

In the following sections, we will focus on the best practices for writing succinct log entries that are easily searchable and highlight some common pitfalls that you definitely want to avoid. Furthermore, we will discuss solutions for collecting and shipping the logs from your Kubernetes pods (or dockerized services) to a central ...