Mission: Build a Logging Infrastructure

When production incidents occur, centralized logging is the difference between a ten-minute diagnosis and a ten-hour guessing game. This mission deploys your AI squad to implement structured centralized logging across all your services with search and filtering, log-based alerting, retention policies, and correlation IDs that trace individual requests across your entire system. Forge implements structured log format standards, sets up the aggregation pipeline using ELK, Datadog, or Logtail depending on your volume and budget, and configures retention policies with 30 days of hot storage, 90 days warm, and one year cold for compliance. The squad implements correlation IDs that propagate through every service call, making it trivial to trace a single user request across microservices, databases, and external APIs. ShipSquad logging infrastructure goes beyond capturing text to providing actionable intelligence. Log-based alerting catches error patterns before they escalate, structured formats enable precise querying, and the search interface lets your team find the exact log entry they need in seconds. The mission delivers in 1-2 weeks with every service producing structured, searchable, correlated logs that accelerate incident resolution.