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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

I believe rule of thumb is to track/log at least one level deeper than what you show to the end user, to ease with troubleshooting and debugging.

Beyond that, logs are only useless until they aren't, and then if you don't have them you're in for a universe of pain.