I don’t need an “about to do a thing” line at the start. I only ever find these are needed for one of two reasons:

1. To time how long something takes. Just time it within the application and add an elapsed_time property to line at the end to achieve the same thing.

2. To debug scenarios where the starting line is logged but not the end. This is normally because:

   • An exception was thrown or something happened to divert the control flow away from logging the ending line. Use a finally block.
   • You’re stuck in an infinite loop somewhere. You could log a timeout for the request here.
   • Your application has totally crashed. This is a real edge case.