Observability Made Easy: Adding Logs, Traces & Metrics to FastAPI with Logfire

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Observability Made Easy: Adding Logs, Traces & Metrics to FastAPI with Logfire

Picture this: You deploy your shiny new application. Everything looks great in dev, the logs are clean, requests are snappy, and life is good. Then… disaster strikes. A user reports a bug. Another complains about slow response times. You check your logs—wait, where are they? You SSH into the server, tail some logs, guess what went wrong, and hope for the best. Sound familiar? Observability—knowing what’s happening inside your app in real time—sh…