{"id":15576,"date":"2026-05-16T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netwitness.com\/?post_type=glossary&p=15576"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:38:10","slug":"log-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.netwitness.com\/it\/cyber-glossary\/log-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Log Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is Log Monitoring?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Log\u00a0Monitoring is the process of collecting, centralizing, reviewing, and analyzing logs from applications, servers, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and network devices to detect errors, performance issues, security threats, and abnormal system behavior. It helps IT, DevOps, SRE, and security teams understand what is happening across their systems in real time and respond before problems affect users or business operations.<\/span><\/p>

In practice, log monitoring involves log ingestion, log aggregation, log parsing, log analysis, event monitoring, alerting, and log correlation. Modern log monitoring tools and log monitoring platforms often combine logs with metrics, traces, and security signals to support infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, SIEM, and broader observability workflows. Elastic defines log monitoring as collecting, analyzing, and acting on log data from sources such as applications, compute, network, and storage infrastructure; it also positions log monitoring as part of observability alongside metrics and traces.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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