Preface

Welcome to Logging and Log Management: The Authoritative Guide to Understanding the Concepts Surrounding Logging and Log Management. The goal of this book is to provide you, the Information Technology (IT) Professional, with an introduction to understand and dealing with log data. Log data comes in many forms and is generated by many types of systems. A long-running problem is what one should do with all this log data and how to analyze it. This book presents techniques and tools which can help you analyze your log data and find malicious activity.

It used to be that system administrators perused log files to look for disk errors or kernel panics. Today system administrators often time do double duty as system administrators and security ...

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