
Look for out-of-the box machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that your entire team can use to find immediate answers, automate alerts, and quickly glean insights from billions of logs. When you’re conducting investigations or hunting down time-sensitive information, manual search and correlation won’t cut it. Use automation to find the needle in the haystack For example, if you have five servers down, you can identify which ones directly affect your mission and start there. But when you can access and aggregate your logging and mission data in one place, you gain real-time situational awareness and the ability to quickly prioritize remediation. Integrate mission and logging dataĮven organizations that have solid logging management capabilities may have separate data stores for mission data and logs. Using a single agent to ingest all your logs, metrics, and traces can eliminate dependency on external plugins and integrations that may require you to give up control of your sensitive data. Pulling different types of data from different sources typically requires multiple tools and processes and can put additional strain on your team. In a recent virtual event, we walked through five tips for maximizing your logging data, based on our work with public sector customers. Complying with logging regulations such as M-21-31 in the USīut log management is growing exponentially more complex and expensive, which is why it’s important for agencies to leverage logs for multiple purposes, such as across cybersecurity and observability.Accelerating problem resolution based on mission priority.

Giving early warnings of mission-critical issues.In public sector, logs are instrumental in:

Logs - though seemingly straightforward - are the backbone of many mission-based use cases and therefore have the potential to accelerate mission success when centrally organized and leveraged strategically. With governments doubling down on logging compliance, many public sector organizations have been focusing on optimizing their log management, especially to ensure they retain logs for required periods of time.
