Auto-instrumentation gives baseline metrics, but you need pinpointed metrics for custom logic. Metrics often get forgotten because they require separate code paths from logs. LogLayer v7 adds StatsD support via hot-shots, letting you send metrics and logs in one call. When you log an error, increment your counter. When you log a request, track its duration. Metrics and logs stay in sync.

LogLayer is a unified logger that routes logs to logging libraries, cloud providers, and OpenTelemetry while providing a fluent API for specifying log messages, metadata and errors, enhancing and standardizing the developer experience around writing logs.