Log Diving
Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
Digging through logs in search of clues about system behavior, usually deeper and longer than anyone hoped. In engineering slang, log diving is part archaeology and part survival skill.
In plain English: Searching through logs deeply to find clues about a problem.
Example: "The on-call spent the first hour log diving across three services before noticing the one correlation ID that tied the failures together."