Logging is arguably a programmer’s best friend, used for everything from debugging programs to finding out whodunnit. While powerful, excessive logging can cause systems to fill up disks, and potentially even slow down applications. System administrators are not fans of these consequences, nor do they appreciate making multiple deployments to turn logging on or off in various modules of the application.
Watch again Peter Judge, Consultingwerk, discussing approaches to logging in OpenEdge that can help make admins and programmers happy, primarily using the ABL Logging Library that was added in OpenEdge 11.7.0.