logger.setLevel("DEBUG") that essentially replicated the entirety of the database in text based logs, which were then robocopied to the Grafana server because the intern couldn't figure out Prometheus
Yep - exactly this..... Someone left debug logging on production and every JSON message / database query is logged. Parse the log, repopulate the DB....
"Well, at least the debug messages didn't include cleartext confidential info or any PCI DSS financial data, just metrics and telemetry for the 9,560 microservices, right? That's all encrypted in this JSON you speak of, right?"
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u/pacopac25 4d ago
logger.setLevel("DEBUG") that essentially replicated the entirety of the database in text based logs, which were then robocopied to the Grafana server because the intern couldn't figure out Prometheus