Comment by buserror

I am absolutely amazed at the amount of garbage being "logged", enough that it is not just a huge business, but also one of the primary task for some devops guys. It's like a goal in itself, you have a look at the output and it is absolutely scary, HUGE messages being "logged" for purpose unknown.

I've seen single traces over 100KB of absolute pure randomness encoded as base64... Because! Oh and also, we have to pay for the service, so it looks important.

Sure they tell you it is super helpful for debugging issues, but in a VERY large proportion of cases, it is 1) WAY too much, and 2) never used anyway. And most of the time what's interesting is the last 10 minutes of the debug version, you don't need a "service" for that.

/me gets down his horse :-)