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Poll #7: What tools do you use for Windows Event Log collection?

2008-03-07 12:50:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...poll is here - please vote! It is about tools for centralized collection of Windows Event Log from servers and other systems. One of the somewhat surprising discoveries from my previous poll was that few people look at Windows logs; this poll drills down into it UPDATE : just looked at the results collected so far , and I would like to say...
 
Tags: poll, poll drills, logs, windows logs, collect logs, collect, previous poll, analysis, windows event log
 
 
 
 
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Poll #8 Log Analysis Context

2008-05-05 13:44:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...poll is up - and it is fun: Which of the types of information below are most useful when trying to make sense of a log entry Vote here Past polls Poll #7 " What tools do you use for Windows Event Log collection? " ( analysis Poll #6 "Which logs do you LOOK at?" ( analysis Poll #5 " What are your top challenges with logs? " ( analysis...
 
Tags: poll, analysis, collect logs, collect, logs, log entry, top challenges, past polls, types
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #8 Analysis: Needed Log Context

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2008-06-03 08:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...poll #8 , I asked a question : what information is most important when analyzing a particular log record. Live results are here and final count is also below What can we conclude First , good documentation never hurts :-) - indeed, the most popular information to look for when facing a new log record is documentation on what it means. While...
 
Tags: log, recent log entry, strange log entry, log time stamps, log record, heavy log, log entry, complement logs, logs
 
 
 
 
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Poll: What logs do you actually LOOK at?

2008-02-13 18:29:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...poll (vote here now!)- links to the previous five polls below This one is deceptively similar to the #1 below, but it is not. This poll is What logs do you actually LOOK at? and not Which Logs Do You Collect? In other words, are you a log packrat? Are you collecting and never using the log data? You are making a mistake , if you don't Past...
 
Tags: logs, poll, collect logs, collect, analysis, polls, past polls, deceptively similar, log data
 
 
 
 
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Poll: What are your top challenges with logs and logging?

2008-01-21 10:27:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...poll is especially fun: What are your top challenges with logs and logging ? Vote here Past polls were Poll #4 " Who looks at logs in your organization? " ( analysis Poll #3 "What Do You Do With Logs?" ( analysis Poll #2 " Why Collect Logs? " ( results so far , my analysis Poll #1 " Which Logs Do You Collect ?" ( analysis Technorati tags:...
 
Tags: logs, poll, collect logs, collect, top challenges, analysis, polls, past polls, log management
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #6 "Which Logs Do You LOOK At?" Analysis

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2008-03-06 15:01:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...poll on looking at logs poll was relatively popular; lets see what we can learn (live results are also here First , what are the top 3 log types that people look at? They are Unix/Linux server syslog Web server logs Firewall logs How does that compare with the top 3 log types that people collect (see picture showing results from my previous...
 
Tags: logs, logs poll, windows server logs, nidsnips logs, firewall logs, poll, people collect, web server logs, people
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #3 "What Do You Do With Logs?" Analysis

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2007-12-07 09:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...poll are ready: live results are here , picture is also in this post. This sure was fun First, this poll way more popular than my previous "why" poll . Yes, it seems like people do hate to wonder "why Second, what are the two choices, that are by far the most popular? They are Store raw logs on a server (23 Search raw logs (grep) when needed...
 
Tags: logs, store raw logs, log management business, log management, analysis, poll, commercial log management, raw logs, log management tools
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #4 "Who Looks at Logs?" Analysis

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2008-01-08 19:48:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...poll on logs . In it, I asked who actually looks at logs at the organization. Here is what came up: results are here and also included below What can we conclude from this First , a "duh" conclusion is in order! No matter how many times one can utter the word " compliance ," logs are still most useful for mundane (one would hope! :-)) system...
 
Tags: logs, poll, incident response, incident response team, reveal answers unobtainable, technorati tags, theoretical physicist, applications, application developers
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #5 "Top Logging Challenges" Analysis

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2008-02-08 11:06:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...poll WAS fun! The raw results are here and below What do we learn from this? Sadly, this poll was less popular than I hoped, so the results are not as statistically significant. Still, we can draw some fun conclusions from the data First, what are the top challenges? It is with great regret :-) that I report that the #1 challenge is exactly...
 
Tags: enable log collection, log, log management, log analysis tools, collect logs, logs, log security, poll, log volume