{"id":241,"date":"2005-11-15T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=25"},"modified":"2005-11-15T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T12:56:22","slug":"keeping-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Keeping logs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've just read Douglas Schweitzer's<\/a> piece about logs, and the related pieces. <\/p>\n

Keeping logs is not as difficult as it seems, but some companies have an interesting approach. I keep logs of everything - I've mentioned before some of the steps I take to keep a record of the IT stuff I do, like using WordPress<\/a> to store information, particularly changes. <\/p>\n

Logs I process on a weekly basis, and I extract the information from them that I feel is valuable (for example, I have records going back years of the emails going to and from the internal network. These are retain indefinitely (they are in a DB so I can search and report on them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’ve just read Douglas Schweitzer’s<\/a> piece about logs, and the related pieces. <\/p>\n

Keeping logs is not as difficult as it seems, but some companies have an interesting approach. I keep logs of everything – I’ve mentioned before some of the steps I take to keep a record of the IT stuff I do, like using WordPress<\/a> to store information, particularly changes. <\/p>\n

Logs I process on a weekly basis, and I extract the information from them that I feel is valuable (for example, I have records going back years of the emails going to and from the internal network. These are retain indefinitely (they are in a DB so I can search and report on them.<\/p>\n

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