Not all log management tools are created equal. Here’s what to look for.
Log management and log analysis tools provide real-time visualization of how users interact with your apps and systems. Many of these log management tools include a sophisticated visual dashboard to immediately analyze data. They also offer your DevSecOps teams deeper insights and possibilities to enhance code quality, boost productivity and reduce risks.
What should the best log management tools do for your team to be successful?
What is log management?
Log management is a continuous process of collecting, analyzing and retaining log data or log files over time. With log management, DevOps, site reliability engineering and security teams are able to monitor performance, find problems and defects and identify security threats. Once collected, log data from various applications and infrastructure can be analyzed and used to gain insight into business, security and operational performance.
Your DevSecOps teams may access data from on-premises, cloud and hybrid settings with log management processes:
- Instrument and collect: The first step in log management is to gather all the information into one place as part of a process known as log aggregation. Imagine how annoying it would be to go to every server, application and network device individually! Each data source has query logs. Syslog, or apps that write their log message directly into the centralized log management over HTTP, can be used for collection. Using schema-on-read will save you significant time since the data won't need to be organized or uniform until you use it...Read More!
