Logs: Parsing, Tokenizing or Extracting?
...sequential names and values [yuck!], XML, etc) to obtain a semblance of structured data (not just a flow of text logs) from logs without any human involvement
But is that an endgame, that "holy grail" of log analysis or yet another step towards it? First, bad logs break it (e.g. with space in names or values with spaces and without quotes)...
