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by gnaman 358 days ago
How do engineers troubleshoot then? Our engineers would throw hands if they are asked not to parse through two months worth of log volume for a single issue.
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In practice, at the scale I work at, it's barely feasible to scan one week of logs, let alone two months, because you'll be waiting hours for the result. So you learn strategies to only need to scan a subset of the logs at a time.