Have you ever glanced at your logs and wondered why they don't make sense? Perhaps you've misused your log levels, and now every log is labelled "Error." Alternatively, your logs may fail to provide clear information about what went wrong, or they may divulge valuable data that hackers may exploit. It is possible to resolve these issues!!!

Good logging practices are crucial for monitoring and troubleshooting your Node.js servers. They help you track errors in the application, discover performance optimization opportunities, and carry out different kinds of analysis on the system (such as in the case of outages or security issues) to make critical product decisions. Even though logging is an essential aspect of building robust web applications, it’s often ignored or glossed over in discussions about development best practices.

As we recently discussed, many of us are still lost in the darkness, grasping for a log line to shed some light on the issue we are trying to troubleshoot. Many of our customers and colleagues have shared the following challenges with us: But what if we didn’t have to make such a choice? What if we could easily and efficiently switch on exactly the logs we needed, without hurting our application?

Following best practices when logging helps make sure they contain the right information when needed. Some common best practices for logging errors in.NET are listed below.

The Shopware 6 software architecture heavily relies on a message queue to process tasks in the background. This is a fundamental change of how Shopware works compared to version 5, which did not have a message queue. To fully leverage the benefits of Shopware 6 you should make use of the message queue as much as possible.