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Adjust log levels to be less severe #36

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@srapp srapp commented Sep 11, 2014

In our applications, we noticed a lot of ERROR messages that seemed to signify that something bad was happening with the application, but it was actually coming from the tracing modules, most of which we felt were too highly escalated. In general, we think that the logging shouldn't go above WARN, so we removed some duplicated messages and downgraded many of the error and "retrying" messages to something less severe.

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I agree. Having zipkin working is nice but if it does not work it should not pollute the application logs with error messages as it is far less critical than actual application errors.

If somehow things start failing it would also be nice to have a circuit breaker with exponential back-off to avoid too many of the same warning messages. But that's another topic.

Thanks.

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@kristofa kristofa merged commit 8985633 into openzipkin:master Sep 12, 2014
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This pull request made it into brave version 2.3 which should appear in Maven Central shortly.

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srapp commented Sep 25, 2014

Thanks for the heads up! BTW, it's really awesome how open and responsive you are to pull requests to this repo. I really appreciate it! 😃

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