The practice of periodically storing program status running on a computer into a file for later analysis.
Acts as an audit trail to track events.
Often contains Metadata
Types of Logs
- Event : OS events like startup, application errors, shutdown
- Application : Logs that developers can set up
- Security: Logs authentication and priviledges of resources.
- System: Logs for document-level system events like driver or hardware errors
- Setup: Logs for updating software or hardware