Clean up log levels and log messages
Prompt that sorts log messages by purpose, fixes wrong levels and rewrites vague messages into searchable lines. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then cleans up the logs.
- Topic
- Apps & prototypes
- Type
- Prompt
- Level
- Intermediate
- Time
- about 15 min
Results depend on the tool, the model and what you enter.
Result preview
Example: written by our editors, not real AI output.
| Message | Old | New | | Login rejected (wrong password) | ERROR | INFO | | Payment provider unreachable | INFO | ERROR | | Cache hit | INFO | DEBUG | Rewritten: "order.cancel failed order_id=8f3 reason=already_shipped" Sensitive: 2 lines with full email address → shorten Noisiest: health check line, 41 % of all lines → remove
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- web API
- background jobs
- payment processing
- mobile app with backend
- internal tool
- too many lines, nothing to find
- alerts from harmless errors
- messages without context
- sensitive data in logs
- high storage costs
- on-call during outages
- support for customer questions
- developers while debugging
- reports and alerts
- nobody regularly
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Where this prompt works
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How to use it
- Fill in the fields or tap a suggestion. Leave out names, addresses and other personal data.
- Copy the finished prompt into an AI tool of your choice.
- Paste 20 to 50 typical log lines and the places in the code that write them, with shortened identifiers and no real customer data.
Why does this work?
When everything is an error, nothing is. Clear levels and messages with fixed fields cut the search during an incident from hours to minutes.
Tips
- Logs often fall under data protection rules; keep only what you need and set a deletion period.