Logs

We have various types of logs with different purposes in AMO. The following tables summarize their characteristics:

	ActivityLog / LogEntry
Type	Database entry
Purpose	Storing information about developers/reviewers/admin actions
Stores IP	Depending on the action
Stores user	Yes, explictly (mandatory)
Retention	A year to forever depending on the action
Access	Redash

	Application logging
Type	JSON (MozLog [1])
Purpose	Tracing specific calls / debugging
Stores IP	Yes
Stores user	Yes, if applicable (automatically for authenticated requests)
Retention	6 months
Access	Google Log Explorer

	CDN logs
Type	HTTP access logs
Purpose	Generic request logging
Stores IP	Yes
Stores user	No
Retention	3 months
Access	Google Cloud Storage Bucket

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[1]

addons-server and addons-frontend both produce application logs through python logging and pino respectively, emitting them in the MozLog format. That gets sent to our application logging pipeline used by all Firefox services.