Writing
Logs and Artifacts: Pipeline Breadcrumbs
Make long-running pipelines explain their work through numbered steps, ordered artifacts and a run manifest. Preserve evidence to investigate exceptions and incorrect results.
Topic
Structured Logging
Structured logging records named properties alongside an event so people and tools can filter, correlate, and investigate failures without parsing message text.
4 pages
Writing
High Performance Logging and Custom Objects
An application logging adapter can accept a DTO and expose its fields as structured state. ILogger.Log<TState> separates that context from the formatted message.
Writing
Programming to Exceptions, Part 2: Diagnostics and Boundaries
Specific exceptions preserve failure meaning, causes, and context. A shallow C# hierarchy, Gateway translation, and middleware enrichment carry diagnostic records across service boundaries.
Writing
Programming to Exceptions, Part 3: Logging and Progress
Structured logs preserve the facts needed to investigate failures. Application Insights custom dimensions make them searchable, while typed progress events track long-running work.