Stop Logging the Request Body!
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
With more and more people adopting OpenTelemetry and specifically using the tracing signal, Ive seen an uptick in people wanting to add the entire request and response body as an attribute. This isnt ideal, as it wasnt when people were logging the body as text logs. In this blog post, Ill explain why this is a bad idea, what are the pitfalls, and more importantly, what you should do instead.
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