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		sgarland on Sept 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Operations is not Developer IT I'm an SRE, so my programs are generally Python scripts < 1K LOC; maybe this isn't scalable, but I write verbose log statements (if it's launched with --verbose, of course). It's not that much effort to change `except OSError as e: log.error(e)` to `except OSError as e: log.error(f"Error accessing {file} - {e}")` If I know typical causes of errors (forgot to connect to the VPN, etc.), I'll include them in the log message as well as things to check.

zaphar on Sept 3, 2021 [–]

That might at least in part be because you are an SRE and at some point you hit your limit of inscrutable error messages happening in production.

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