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Every Request Looked the Same in My Logs. Then I Added One Line.
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Every Request Looked the Same in My Logs. Then I Added One Line.

DEV CommunityΒ·Abhishek SharmaΒ·about 1 month ago
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In Part 9 , I Dockerized my backend and added database migrations. One command ( docker compose up ) now spins up Go + Postgres + Redis. Then I hit a bug. I sent a POST to /entries and got a 500 back. No idea why. I opened the logs: 2026/02/01 10:15:23 POST /entries - Request received 2026/02/01 10:15:23 Creating entry for user ID: 3 2026/02/01 10:15:23 POST /entries - Request received 2026/02/01 10:15:23 Creating entry for user ID: 7 2026/02/01 10:15:23 Failed to extract user_id from context 2026/02/01 10:15:23 Entry created successfully with ID: 42 Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Five lines. Three users. Which line belongs to which request? I had no idea. The logs were flat strings β€” timestamps and messages, nothing else. When two requests hit at the same millisecond, the lines interleaved and became useless. I couldn't debug my own backend. Step 1: Replace Every log.Printf in the Codebase Go ships a structured logging package in the standard library: log/slog . No external dependencies.…

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