Logs are like digital footprints or a letter that developers write to themselves for the future. They track every action or event that takes place within your software, applications and IT infrastructures. They provide important information such as when an action took place, host name, type of action, application used and more.
Sometimes you have to retrace your steps or the steps of a user to determine where something went wrong…or where it could start going wrong. Unfortunately, technical teams may have to sift through several systems’ worth of logs because systems and applications create logs for every action, error, file request or file transfer that occurred within them. Log management makes the whole process less painful and time consuming.
