Using Logging Frameworks for Application Development

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Manning book Logging Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Cloud Native Logging. This book provides the practical framework you need to transform logging from a reactive debugging tool into a proactive competitive advantage, and can be downloaded to read in its entirety.

A logging framework is a structured toolset that handles how logs are generated, formatted, filtered and routed. It enables developers to configure log behavior (like log levels or destination) without modifying code,…