Historical records of a program, system or network’s status often stored into a file for later analysis.
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
- Debug: Logs for troubleshooting