What’s the deal with monitoring and logging?

What’s the log statement really for? Why should you bother?

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If you’ve done any programming you’ve probably come across a ‘log’ statement. You might have used it as a debugging aid; to make your code spit out some information at a problematic point. But is this what they’re really for? What’s the point in having your app write a bunch of info to the…