From the course: Advanced PHP: Debugging Techniques

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- [Instructor] Once in production, we may find that our logs are too large to be useful. We might call all that data, noise. There are quite a few commercial products that can help us sift through that noise. The first type of product I want to highlight is log file management. Two options I'm familiar with are Papertrail and Sentry. In both cases, you can log all or a percentage of requests with errors. Generally, this data will be combined so you can jump into one error type and inspect each event that has been recorded. These types of services become really useful for a team of developers. You can identify the frequency of events and create tickets from there. Log files are about specific issues. The next service I want to point to helps identify trends. In APM, or application performance monitor, aggregates all requests and can display performance trends, error rate, perceived user experience, and more. New Relic…

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