What kind of information should an Application Log ideally contain? How is it different from Error Log?
You are going to get a lot of different opinions for this question.....
Ultimately it should contain any information that you think is going to be relevant to your application. It should also contain information that will help you determine what is happening with the application. That is not to say it should contain errors, but could if you wanted to use it that way.
At a minimum I would suggest that you include:
Optional items would be:
One thing you want to keep in mind is that you do not want to be writing so much information to your logs that you impact your application performance. Also, want to make sure you don't grow your log files so large that you run out of disk space.
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