A long-running automated workflow that goes silent looks identical to one that has hung. The fix sounds trivial — "show more progress" — but the interesting decisions are about where the liveness signal lives, how honest it is, and whether your test actually exercises the path a real user hits.

The...

Logging cleanup sounds small until the logs sit inside authenticated product flows.

At that point, the question is not whether a message is noisy. It is whether runtime output can expose user-derived data, identifiers, records, transcriptions, generated content, invite details, metadata, or enough ...