I'm Interested in what other people have done regarding logging across various servers.

What I really want is a way to turn on or off some or all of my debugging logs based on some config that can be specified per server.

The two ways I can think of doing this are A) Do it code side with a .js config file that doesn't get merged/transferred when you promote code forwards towards production or B) do it dynamically with Redis keys or a MongoDB collection to specify debugging options.

I can see pros and cons to each of these methods and I'm interested to know what other people have tried.  I would probably lean towards using a MongoDB to make this a dynamic system and most likely use a meta table as they aren't promoted between 'games' automagically by the new GitHub system. I do have a concern about the overhead of reading another meta-table in every script though.

All opinions are appreciated.

Paul C

Senior Server Engineer

Hutch Games