Ask HN: How do you handle "what did user X do yesterday" from customer support?

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At my last three Rails jobs, customer support would ping engineering 5 times a day asking what a specific user did. An engineer would stop, grep prod logs, scroll past SQL, write back a one-sentence summary. Twenty minutes round trip each time.I m curious how other engineering teams handle this. Have you built something internal? Bought a tool? Just absorb the interruption cost and move on? Is there a pattern for the engineer-as-translator role on your team?(For context, I ended up building https://ezlogs.io to handle this for myself, but I m more curious about how other teams have solved or not solved it.)

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