[braythwayt]

I guess you're suggesting that adding a million lines to a log is excessive. But in my math, you can count lines like this: 1, 2, 3, ..., the-number-of-lines-that-fit-in-a-window, many.

Once you have more lines than fit in a window, you've already got "many" and now it's time to talk about tooling like searching logs.

A million lines of log feels like an excessive waste intuitively, but that's only because I was brought up on 8-bit computers with 16K of RAM. Now my watch has more power than probably all of the computers I owned in the 20th century put together, and a single image it displays might have more bits than a million lines of a log file.

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I know this stuff isn't free, but we should at least consider the possibility that what we really need are proper and comprehensive logs/traces, and a "stack trace" is nothing more than an abbreviated execution trace that just happens to be relatively cheap to collect when something goes wrong.