Did You Check Your Logs?

May 15, 2016 ❖ Tags: logs, instrumentation

When I left the world of Geology I moved to application development and Oracle database administration. Both of which are wrought with features, bugs, rewards, and grief. Often when the hours got long and my curses were directed at a screen, my wife would ask me what was the matter. Frustrated I would utter something unintelligible and she would just ask me, “have you checked your logs?”