Logging (i.e. exporting text data from your application) is one of the very first things that any budding programmer learns to do. Who among us hasn’t started learning a programming language with a: 10 PRINT "Hello World!" 20 END That’s a log! Not a good log, but a log nonetheless. And that is why the importance of logging in a systems observability is so often overlooked - everyone can log, it’s hard to log well.