Anyone in a technology organization can relate to a certain frustration: You know that adopting a certain tool or practice would help you. So you charge forward with the initiative, looking for approval. But then someone — a superior, most likely — asks you to justify it. "Give me the business case for it," they say. And then, flummoxed a little, the gears start turning in your head. Today, I'd like to talk about that very issue in the specific context of log analysis tools.
If you have significant operations of any kind in production, you're almost certainly generating logs. If not, you should be. You're also probably monitoring those logs, in some fashion or another. And if you're consuming them, you're analyzing them in some fashion or another. But maybe you're doing this manually, and you'd rather use a tool for log analysis. How do you justify adopting that tool? How do you justify paying for it?
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