5 min
Log Management
Log Search Simplified
Hi, I'm Laura, UX Designer at Logentries and today I'm going to discuss how just
about anyone can use Logentries to search and analyze their log data no matter
what their job title or technical skill level.
What is Logentries?
At Logentries, the team works tirelessly to provide an easy to use log
management service [https://logentries.com/?CS=R7blog] that allows users to
stream their logs from just about anything. Logentries can accept data from
almost any device that generates log data, inclu
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Log Management
Using Log Data as Forensic Evidence
This is a guest post by Ed Tittel. Ed, a regular contributor to
blog.logentries.com [https://blog.logentries.com/], has been writing about
information security topics since the mid-1990s. He contributed to the first
five editions of the CISSP Study Guide (Sybex, 6e, 2012, ISBN:
978-1-119-31427-3) and to two editions of Computer Forensics JumpStart (Sybex,
2e, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-93166-0), and still writes and blogs regularly on
security topics for websites including Tom's IT Pro, GoCertify.co
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Metasploit
Securing Your Metasploit Logs
Metasploit, backed by a community of 200,000 users and contributors is the most
impactful penetration testing solution on the planet. With it, uncover
weaknesses in your defenses, focus on the highest risks, and improve your
security outcomes. Your Metasploit Pro console produces a lot of important logs.
It is essential to be able to review these logs, alert on them, and keep them
secure.
Why should I monitor these logs?
The logs produced by your Metasploit Pro console are helpful when
troubl
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Log Management
10 Best Practices for Log Management and Analytics
Introduction
Today’s Log Management and Analytics Challenges
Within the last decade, the advancement of distributed systems has introduced
new complexities in managing log data. Today’s systems can include thousands of
server instances or micro- service containers, each generating its own log data.
With the rapid emergence and dominance of cloud-based systems, we have witnessed
explosive growth in machine-generated log data. As a result, log management
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what
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Logentries
Logentries Joins the Rapid7 Family
I'm very excited today to join the Rapid7 family. The acquisition is good news
for Logentries customers, Rapid7 customers and all of our employees. It means
that great minds and innovative technology have come together to solve some of
our thorniest IT and security challenges.
The Logentries team has been on a mission over the last few years -- Revealing
the Power of Log Data to the World. While pursuing our mission, I am often asked
why log data has become so valuable. The answer is simple: l
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IT Ops
Log Analysis for Containers
Introduction
The IT and DevOps world has come a long way with infrastructure.
Virtualization revolutionized our ability to quickly deploy an application and
scale up services when needed, paying only for the computing power used. Over
the last few years, agile methodologies and continuous delivery have pushed VMs
to their limits. Many teams still repeatedly use a single VM for releases and
testing. Production VMs rarely change unless something goes seriously wrong. At
the pace software develop
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IT Ops
In the Log Management World: Are you a Fox or Hedgehog?
I’ve recently been reading Nate Silver’s book, “The Signal and the Noise.” In
the book, Silver looks at a number of areas where predictions have been made and
considers how successful they have been, as well as the reasons why they have
been accurate (or not).
I couldn’t help but draw the similarities how most companies use log management
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what-is-log-management/] tools today.
Silver’s particular interests are political forecasting (see
www.fivethirtyeight
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IT Ops
JSON logging in Apache and Nginx with Logentries
I’m often asked on calls with our customers what is the preferred format for log
data being sent to Logentries
[https://logentries.com/centralize-log-data-automatically/?le_trial=json_logging_in_apache_and_nginx-logentries_blog-post_cta-create_trial&utm_campaign=json_logging_in_apache_and_nginx&utm_source=logentries_blog&utm_medium=post_cta&utm_content=create_trial]
. While we pride ourselves on being the Log Management
[https://logentries.com/doc/log-management/] tool that is easiest to setup a
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IT Ops
4 Ways to Use Centralized Log Management for Improved Production Monitoring
Is your team focused on preventing outages and minimizing downtime in
production?
Time to resolution is one of the most important operational KPIs for Ops teams,
becauseany time that your application is down, is too long for your users.
Whether it’s minutes, hours, or (in a worst case-scenario) days, any time that
your systems are down, your business is losing money; and more importantly,
customer trust and satisfaction. This creates additional pressure on your team
and hurts employee morale. By
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IT Ops
Revisiting the Past with Logentries and Syslog
When I was younger I was always amazed by my grandfather. He would revel me
in stories about how, when growing up, not only did he not have a car or
television, but he had to walk up hill “both ways” to get to school – without
shoes! And here I am today more or less saying the same thing about the late
70’s and early 80’s when client-server changeover that occurred during that time
and we all had servers sitting in our closets. Setting up syslog
[https://logentries.com/doc/about-syslog/] back in
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IT Ops
AWS CloudWatch Logs - Making Innovation Easier and Cheaper
Last week AWS made an exciting announcement at their NYC Summit, which I believe
is a big step in helping to reduce the cost of log management in the cloud
[https://logentries.com/doc/log-management/] for end users and vendors alike –
good news all around!
What was announced?
Amazon announced ‘CloudWatch Logs’ which essentially allows you to send log data
from your EC2 instances into CloudWatch for storage and some rudimentary
analysis.
How does it work?
CloudWatch logs works by collecting y
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IT Ops
Log Management 101 - Where Do Logs Come From?
We’ve had a lot of people asking for the Log Management
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what-is-log-management/] Primer for a while
now. And, surprisingly, many of these folks have a strong technical background,
including developers. Some want it for themselves, and some want it to pass on
to a colleague, manager, etc. I’m going to explain what logs are, where they
come from and how you can get your logs.
If you’re a developer, this post probably isn’t for you as we don’t dig into the
code
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Log Management
Nexpose log files - What's changed in v5.2
Introduction
Nexpose logs messages for tasks that the system has performed as well as events
that occurred as a result of those tasks. The messages vary with respect to the
features in the product such as users logging into Nexpose successfully,
launching a scan for a site, or generating a report. The log files are helpful
in understanding what Nexpose has already done. In the latest release, Nexpose
5.2, we have introduced a number of enhancements to the log files such as
reducing disk usage an