Will log-file data ever not be a mess? Doubt it. But the TAG TrustNet program, which was launched two years ago by Trustworthy Accountability Group to focus on advertisers’ supply-chain transparency, ...

Log files offer a wealth of information about system and user functions. They also provide a safe way to get started analyzing large data sets. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

As every server administrator knows, log files are the pulse of a network infrastructure. They tell us what has occurred in an application or service, and if they stop growing, something is wrong. Log ...

There’s no bigger source of Big Data than machine-generated log files. And every business has them. That means there’s a huge opportunity for vendors that monitor and analyze log file data to help ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

These long-standing logs can help you monitor your networks and employees. So before you invest in a new kind of data collection system, review your log files. Marcus Ranum architected the first ...

TAG TrustNet is publishing its first register of ad tech companies that share log-file data, don’t share log files and kinda sorta share log-level data.

OS X includes a number of tools that can be useful for troubleshooting purposes. Console, which you’ll find in the Applications -> Utilities folder, is one such tool. Console is a front-end for all ...