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In many cases, logs are asynchronous so depending on many factors among which are utilization of the host, you might get them with a delay and the ordering of events might not make sense because of that when read from the logs. If you need that precision you can surely engineer/ configure your system for that.



If I'm running my own distributed system for some business reasons, sure.

If I'm dealing with equipment failures, bugs in third-party software, or other such random tech bullshit, as an individual or a team, then I don't know in advance when and what precision I'll need.


In a reasonable system, you might be able to change some function in one place, perhaps even in the running system and get the precision or detail you need. You might take out the big guns like e.g. dynamic tracing using BPF to attach probes at the right places.




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