> Logging Sucks

But does it? Or is it bad logging, or excessive logging, or unsearchable logs?

A client of mine uses SnapLogic, which is a middleware / ETL that's supposed run pipelines in batch mode to pass data around between systems. It generates an enormous amount of logs that are so difficult to access, search and read that they may as well don't exist.

We're replacing all of that with simple Python scripts that do the same thing and generate normal simple logs with simple errors when something's truly wrong or the data is in the wrong format.

Terse logging is what you want, not an exhaustive (and exhausting) torrent of irrelevant information.