Hi Marten,

Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2017 14:10:58 UTC+2 schrieb knbk:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> The primary purpose of logging is to catch and examine errors. If 
> something went wrong, you want to know *when *and *why*. Logging to a 
> database increases the complexity and greatly increases the number of 
> things that can go wrong. The last thing you want to find out when 
> retracing an error is that you don't have any logs because the logging 
> system failed. You may also need to log errors that happened during 
> startup, before a database connection can be established. Logging to file 
> is the simplest method, and has the least chance of failure. That's why you 
> should always log to file. 
>
> The two options are not mutually exclusive. Like you said, times have 
> changed, and the overhead to store logs both in a file and in a database 
> are nowadays acceptable. If you have a good reason to store the logs in a 
> database, then go ahead. Just remember that it should be *in addition to 
> *file-based 
> logging. 
>
>
Yes, you are right. During the initialization of processes no db 
connections exists yet. I don't like redundancy but here its needed for a 
higher availability. 

Thank you for your reply.

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