All companies and organizations have some kind of logging/monitoring systems today. The area of logging is in a state of transformation, from focus on infrastructure to also include the application, from logging/monitoring of locally available data to the centrally collected, correlated and time-stamped data.

The reason is that more organizations and companies are moving towards more and more distributed solutions such as service based architectures. This combined with various procedural and compliance requirements will make it very difficult to detect which user has done what if the log data is not collected, correlated and normalized according to consistent time stamping.

Commercial products such as routers, firewalls, operating systems, and many applications already create logs with good quality. However, in-house systems often generate log data with errors and incorrect resolution. It is important to have an architectural plan for all log data!

The Omegapoint can help you with setting up centralized logging / monitoring, architecture, products, log generators, electronic archives, storage, and more. Please contact us for a talk about this!