One thing I like to evangelize is the similarity between logging and tracing. A trace could be assembled from properly-formatted distributed log messages, and some tracing systems are implemented this way. If you have a working tracing setup, and you trace every request as some people do, then using a span event [1] can be an easier way to get information about what happened during the request than it would be to find all the associated debug logs.

1: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/#span-... A span event is data that is associated with a point in time rather than an interval.