We collect logs, but during incidents they don’t answer key questions.
Important details seem to be missing or hard to correlate.
I’m trying to understand how to make logs more useful!
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We collect logs, but during incidents they don’t answer key questions.
Important details seem to be missing or hard to correlate.
I’m trying to understand how to make logs more useful!
Logs often lack context such as user identity, request correlation IDs, or consistent timestamps. Without these, reconstructing events becomes difficult.
Another common issue is logging too much irrelevant data while missing critical security-relevant actions. Logs should be designed around investigation needs, not just storage.
Takeaway: Logs are only useful if they answer real incident questions.