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title: "How can I prevent incorrect logging configuration from hiding critical errors?"  
description: "How can I prevent incorrect logging configuration from hiding critical errors?"  
author: "Manish Sharma"  
published: 2026-09-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117257/how-can-i-prevent-incorrect-logging-configuration-from-hiding-critical-errors  
category: "Monitoring"  
tags: ["logging", "Monitoring", "configuration"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can I prevent incorrect logging configuration from hiding critical errors?

## Logging Misconfiguration

Your production logs are empty, yet users report failures. The most common culprit is a logging provider that writes to a file with restricted permissions, or a filter level set too high to capture warnings.

### Validating the setup

Inspect your `appsettings.json` and ensure the minimum level is `Information` or lower. If you use Serilog or NLog, verify the sink destinations are reachable by the service account. A silent sink is worse than no sink at all.

- Run a quick smoke test that forces a log write immediately after startup.
- Check disk quotas; a full log volume will silently drop new entries.
- Prefer structured logging so you can filter by severity without redeploying.


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