Logster and our error logging strategy at Discourse

I have always been somewhat fascinated with logs. I tend to see the warning and error logs in production as a valuable heartbeat of an application. Proper handling of error logs is a very strong complement to a robust test suite. It shows us what really happens when real world data meets our application. 9 years ago, at Stack Overflow we had a daily ritual where we would open up our fork of ELMAH every morning and fish through our logs for problems. This had a dramatic positive effect on Stack O...

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