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Errors, traces, logs, metrics: when to reach for what

calendar_today June 5, 2026 person domain sentry-system

Errors, traces, logs, and metrics overlap enough that it’s hard to know which to use. Here’s when to reach for each signal, with a real debugging walkthrough. The post explains that each signal answers a different question and feeds a different workflow, and that defaulting to what’s familiar often means missing the value of other telemetry types.

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