At Logentries we chat to new users everyday who are looking for an improved solution for centralizing and analyzing their log data. They have often tried rolling their own solution, have previously gone the open source route, or are using an “old school” logging technology.
But, what we find across new users, regardless of how they are managing their log data, are some common challenges that have historically made log management and real-time analytics challenging.
We decided to take our data, along with some similar research from a recent SANs report, and show you some of these challenges, and possible solutions!