TLDR Dev 2026-07-16

Join the Sentry team for a hands-on workshop on structured logging: what to capture, how to structure it, and ensuring that your next incident has a paper trail.

Join live on July 29 for a deep-dive on:

• What's worth logging (and what isn't): How to think about state transitions, request boundaries, external call failures, auth decisions, and more.
• Structured logging best practices - in practice: Adding attributes that make logs searchable, connecting logs to traces and errors so you have full answers beyond "something broke."
• Reducing the noise firehose: How to filter logs to focus on what matters and enjoy the silence.

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