Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Logging adequately

The one thing that is almost as bad as not logging at all, is logging too much. When every event in an application is logged, and nearly every code line has a log statement attached to it, the logs quickly become noise. If an application generates hundreds of exceptions a second, and every exception is sent out as an e-mail alert, people will quickly start ignoring these alert messages altogether, ignoring the critical errors along with the less critical ones. In addition, unless the log statements are properly tagged and easy to classify, mining through these logs can be very difficult.

In addition to mining difficulties, logging has a "cost", and can impact your application performance if overused.

Unfortunately, there ...