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Not sure about best practices. But at our small shop, we’ve rigged up our homegrown logging infrastructure to do that automatically by using the C/C++ macros __FILE__, __FUNCTION__ and __LINE__

We hide the data in our log viewer to reduce clutter but display it as a tooltip.

Various languages have ways of automatically including file paths and line numbers without the caller having to include them every time

C# has CallerFilePathAttribute https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.c...

C has the __FILE__, __func__, and __LINE__ pre-processor macros.

Recently overhauled my rsyslog setup to do timestamps in rfc3339 format. Almost as good as keeping a chain saw chain nicely sharpened, and not replaced backwards!