A Short Guide To Log Analysis
That still doesn’t say how log analysis works, exactly, so let’s take a deeper look at it. First of all, logs are created and stored by lots of different systems, including programmable devices, smart devices, operating systems, applications, and network devices. Logs are composed of messages that are listed in chronological order in a file that is typically stored in a special application known as a log collector. These messages can be numerous, depending on the amount of activity that has been going on in the system....