Category Archives: Logging

Indexing vs. Normalization of logs

Recently a friend asked me whether he should normalize or index logs for faster reporting.  My response was that it depends on who is interpreting the reports.  I suggested he use indexing if the logs are coming from a single … Continue reading

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Quality Log Data is the Foundation of Log Management

The foundation of the Log Management Hierarchy of Needs is for the applications and devices to produce quality log data.

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Log Management Hierarchy of Needs

Log Management has a hierarchy of needs similar to Maslow’s famous hierarchy.  An organization needs to strategize and automate their basic logging tasks before they can focus on the complicated, solutions such as correlation and analysis.

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