Python

What’s even the “gold standard” for logging stuff I guess?

structlog. Or just Structured Logging in general.

Don't do:

logging.info(f"{something} happened!")

But do

logging.info("thing-happened", thing=something)

Why? Your event will become a category, which means it's easily searchable/findable, you can output either human-readable stuff (the typical {date}, {loglevel}, {event}) or just straight up JSONL (a JSON object/dict per line). If you have JSON logs you can use jq to query/filter/manipulate your logs, if you have something like ELK, you can insert your logs there and create dashboards.

It's amazing - though it may break your brain initially.