Spring Boot Logging Best Practices for BPM Applications
Logging is critical in BPM systems because workflows are long-running, asynchronous, and multi-service . In a normal web app, you debug a request. In a BPM system you debug a process instance . Without proper logging: You cannot trace workflow path Incidents are hard to diagnose External tasks fail silently Business teams cannot understand failures This guide explains production-grade logging for Spring Boot apps integrated with BPM engines like Camunda Platform . đź“Ś Why BPM Logging Is Different BPM applications involve: Workflow engine Workers External services Human tasks Message events A single business transaction may span hours or days . So we must log by Process Instance , not HTTP request. đź–Ľ️ BPM Logging Architecture 4 🧠Core Principle: Correlation ID Logging Every process instance must carry a trace ID . Use: processInstanceKey or businessKey Example log: [ ORDER -92812 ] Payment authorized [ ORDER -92812 ] Invoice generated [ ORDER -92812 ] Email sent Now you can trace ent...