Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?

4 points by aspectrr 7 days ago | 9 comments

Something I've noticed is that I am having to look at production systems manually to do debugging alongside the logs which just made me wonder how other people were doing it

davydm 7 days ago |

1. the logs hopefully tell you where to look 2. the logs hopefully give you enough context to construct a physical test (ie, replicate) 3. the physical test hopefully gives enough context to write an automated test 4. we write the automated test, submit to staging, do the physical test again 5. PROFIT!

aspectrr 6 days ago | |

PROFIT BABYYY

warren455 6 days ago |

In my experience logs are rarely enough for browser automation issues.

I usually end up reproducing the actual session manually because timing/state problems often don’t show up clearly in logs.

aspectrr 6 days ago | |

yeah those are especially nasty. the logs are cryptic and not helpful when most of the the issues will be seen visually in the browser

kartik_malik 6 days ago |

we don't lol, we used to do but these day everyone is doing vibe coding and nobody looking at the logs or error but i use sentry for my side project

aspectrr 6 days ago | |

yeah time to pipe it into claude and tell me what is wrong

kartik_malik 1 day ago | | |

excatly

LogicCraft678 6 days ago |

Certain bugs don’t really make sense until you interact with the real system

aspectrr 6 days ago | |

yeah that's kinda how I feel but wanted to see other's experience