# Logs and tracing: not just for production, local development too

DevFeed: [Logs and tracing: not just for production, local development too](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/logs-and-tracing-not-just-for-production-local-development-too-12047.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/tracing>)

Author: Lawrence Jones

Published: 2021-11-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>)

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## AI overview

This article explains how a small engineering team built an observability setup for both production and local development. It focuses on sending distributed traces from a Go application to Google Cloud Trace, then integrating Stackdriver logs with trace and span IDs so developers can inspect contextual log messages alongside traces.

## Source excerpt

For a small initial investment, we've found a observability setup that works great for both production and local development. You should try it, too!