Lunch & Learn: Seeing Into Your Code - A Practical Guide to Tracing in Rust
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Join us for our next Lunch & Learn: Seeing Into Your Code - A Practical Guide to Tracing in Rust
You've shipped your Rust app, but can you see what it's doing? When something goes wrong at 2am, `println!` isn't going to save you.
In this talk, we'll explore Rust's `tracing` ecosystem and build a practical understanding of how to add observability to your applications.
Starting from the basics (structured logging with `tracing::info!`, `warn!`, and `error!`) we'll work through real examples showing how to go from scattered print statements to structured, queryable, filterable logs that actually help you debug.
We'll cover the difference between events and spans, see how `#[instrument]` can automatically capture function context, and look at how to get your traces into tools like Grafana. Along the way, we'll build a small web app and watch the traces flow in real time.
What you'll learn
- Why structured tracing beats `println!` debugging
- Practical everyday usage: `tracing::info!`, `warn!`, `error!` with structured fields
- How `#[instrument]` gives you automatic context
- Getting traces into Grafana with Loki
- Patterns for making your logs useful, filterable, and production-ready
Who it's for: Rust developers at any level who want to understand what their code is actually doing in production.
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