No matter how skilled you are as a developer, once you put your system into production and users are allowed in, unexpected things will happen. While most users are just doing their job, some users may have far more nefarious purposes for interacting with your system. In both cases you need insight into what is happening in your system so you can ensure the regular users are able to do their jobs, and prevent the bad actors from abusing your system. This is where logging and monitoring really can make a difference by providing necessary data to improve and protect your system.

Logging is a multifaceted tool, and has many use cases but without a proper strategy in place the logs can easily fill up with noise hiding the desired information. In this session we'll see how logging can serve both developers and operations, as well as keeping an audit trail for business and security reasons. Log with purpose, and cut down on the difficulty of separating useful signals from overwhelming noise.