ConceptsApplication Logs

Application Logs

Records produced by applications themselves about their own activity, such as logins, transactions, errors, and administrative actions. They give defenders visibility into behavior that network or OS logs cannot show.

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Structured Logging

The foundation Application Logs builds on, worth understanding first.

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Producing logs as structured data, JSON or similar with named fields, rather than free-text, so events can be parsed, queried, and correlated reliably in SIEM and analytics.

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