Rails logs in development: beautiful stack traces, everything in your terminal, life is good.
Rails logs in production three weeks later: zgrep through 30 compressed files and pray.
I wrote about why this happens and how to fix it.
https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/31/rails-logs-a-blessing-in-development-a-headache-in-production/

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