What is the harm in giving developers read access to application server application event logs?

Posted by Jim Anderson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jim Anderson
Published on 2010-05-28T17:56:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 18:02 UTC
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I am a developer working on an ASP.NET application. The application writes logging messages to the Windows event log - a custom application log just for this application. However, I do not have any access to testing or staging web/application servers. I thought an admin could just give me read access to this event log to help in debugging problems (currently a service that is working in dev is not working in test environment and I have no idea why) but that is against my client's (I'm a consultant) policy. I feel silly to keep asking an admin to look at the event log for me. What is the harm in giving developers read access to application server application event logs? Is there a different method of application logging that sysadmins prefer programmers use? Surely, admins don't want to be fetching logging messages for developers all the time.

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