What is the difference between logging and monitoring?

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What is the difference between logging and monitoring?
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Logging records past events, providing a historical record of what happened in the application. Monitoring, on the other hand, tracks the current state of the application and its performance metrics. Logging is about looking back; monitoring is about looking forward and proactively identifying potential problems.