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ac7e66f215 docs(telemetry): add a Debugging guide and log-query best practices (#47762)
Two related docs changes for debugging Supabase, consolidated into one
PR.

## 1. New "Debugging" guide (`guides/telemetry/debugging`)

A methodology and entry page for debugging any Supabase issue, added
next to Logging in the Telemetry nav. It covers:

- **The debugging loop** — read the exact error, isolate the failing
layer, gather evidence, fix, verify.
- **The Supabase request stack** — the gateway fans out to PostgREST,
GoTrue, Storage, and Realtime as parallel services (not a chain), with
Postgres underneath. Explains why an API-layer permission or
empty-result error is usually a Postgres RLS/privilege issue.
- **Reading logs** — the narrow-query discipline (one source, bounded
window, widen along an anchor), linking the Logs Explorer guide rather
than duplicating query syntax.
- **Symptom to guide routing table** — maps each symptom to its layer
and the specific troubleshooting guide, acting as a front door to the
troubleshooting collection. All 47 links verified live.

This puts the debugging methodology in docs (owned and updatable)
instead of only in the agent skill.

## 2. Log-query best practices (`guides/telemetry/logs`)

Adds the three practices the existing Best practices list was missing,
all engine-agnostic: query one source at a time, follow a request across
sources with an anchor, and reference only confirmed field names.

## Follow-up (not in this PR)

The Logs Explorer now defaults to **ClickHouse** (single `logs` table,
`log_attributes` map), but `guides/telemetry/logs.mdx` and the two logs
troubleshooting guides still document the legacy **BigQuery** dialect
(`cross join unnest(metadata)`). They need a coordinated BigQuery to
ClickHouse migration pass:

- `guides/telemetry/logs.mdx`
-
`troubleshooting/how-to-interpret-and-explore-the-postgres-logs-OuCIOj.mdx`
-
`troubleshooting/discovering-and-interpreting-api-errors-in-the-logs-7xREI9.mdx`

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added a new “Debugging” guide with a step-by-step workflow for
identifying where issues originate versus where they appear.
* Added a symptom-to-layer troubleshooting mapping and linked it from
Telemetry navigation.

* **Documentation**
* Updated Logs Explorer guidance to note its ClickHouse default and that
examples use legacy BigQuery syntax.
* Expanded Logs Explorer best practices, including querying one source
at a time, correlating with anchors, and using only confirmed field
names.
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2026-07-10 18:24:43 +02:00
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