How to Enable Logging: Secure Cloud-native Development Series

Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the second part of the series, and it will teach you how and why to enable logging from the start. 
We’re going to talk about enabling logging (cloud logging, to be specific). What’s the difference? Not much, other than the fact that it’s another managed service integrated with the tools we should already be utilizing.  
Why Enable Logging? 
All developers/engineers know we need logging. But other conflicting priorities and time constraints get in the way sometimes, and it becomes a “we’ll do that on the next sprint”. I have worked on the engineering side of things as well as the security side, where I needed to track down network/application issues, or security incidents, only to find that we didn’t have logs or logging enabled on specific services.   
Enabling logging can be compared to our own health. Even when we are young, we…