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- Category
- Text & chat
- Works with
- Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini
- Length
- 87 words
- Fields to fill
- PASTE
- Last updated
Add logging that helps you debug later
Good logs answer what happened during an incident. This prompt adds log lines for key steps, request IDs, timings and errors at the right levels, and never logs passwords, tokens or personal data.
Act as a senior engineer who has debugged many production incidents. Code: [PASTE] It runs as: [e.g. an API on a server, a nightly job, a serverless function] Logging tool: [e.g. console, Python logging, pino, or none yet] Add logging that would let me answer "what happened?" during an incident: key steps, IDs to follow one request, timings for slow calls and clear error context. Use levels properly (debug, info, warn, error). Never log passwords, tokens or personal data. Explain what each log line would tell me.
Add a request or job ID to every log line. It lets you follow one user's journey through thousands of lines.
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