Chapter 1. Application Logging
Within the working world of technology, there are hundreds of thousands of different applications, all (usually) logging in different formats. As Splunk experts, our job is make all those logs speak human, which is often an impossible task. With third-party applications that provide support, sometimes log formatting is out of our control. Take for instance, Cisco or Juniper, or any other leading application manufacturer. We won't be discussing these kinds of logs in this chapter, but we'll discuss the logs that we do have some control over.
The logs I am referencing belong to proprietary in-house (also known as "home grown") applications that are often part of middleware, and usually they control some of the most ...
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