Structured Logging Best Practices
Structured logging best practices with JSON format, OpenTelemetry integration, context propagation, and consistent schemas across services.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Structured Logging: Use JSON format with consistent schema. Include traceId/spanId for correlation. Add service name, environment, version. Use log levels correctly (error for failures, warn for degraded, info for events). Never log secrets. Shallow nesting (2-3 levels max).
Use When
- Setting up application logging
- Implementing observability
- Building microservices
- Integrating with log aggregation systems
Skip When
- Simple CLI scripts
- Development-only debugging
Structured Logging Best Practices
Structured logging best practices with JSON format, OpenTelemetry integration, context propagation, and consistent schemas across services.