Structured application logs in OpenShift

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By Frédéric Giloux

Logs are like gold dust. Taken alone they may not be worth much, but put together and worked by a skillful goldsmith they may become very valuable. OpenShift comes with The EFK stack: Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana. Applications running on OpenShift get their logs automatically aggregated to provide valuable information on their state and health during tests and in production.

The only requirement is that the application sends its logs to the standard output. OpenShift does the rest. Simple enough!

In this blog I am covering a few points that may help you with bringing your logs from raw material to a more valuable product.

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Programmatic Debugging: Part 1 the challenge

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By Ben Woodard

As every developer knows, debugging an application can be difficult and often enough you spend as much or more time debugging an application as originally writing it. Every programmer develops their collection of tools and techniques. Traditionally these have included full-fledged debuggers, instrumentation of the code, and tracing and logging. Each of these has their particular strengths and weaknesses.

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