COMMON NAViGATE

Historically IBM i shops have leaned exclusively on job logs to monitor and provide historical messaging. Let's explore the difference between logging and tracing, the reasons we want to supplement job logs with additional "real-time/variable level" logging/tracing techniques, and how we can easily listen for events to improve our DevOps experience with tools like Ansible and Splunk. As we continue to shift from categorizing executions as "jobs" into "transactions", a core understanding of terms and technologies opens many doors.