Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Typically, the requirements for log management vary from o ne application to another. As different logging tools have different capabilitie s, some applications are better suited for one log provider, while others are be tter suited for another provider. In existing product architectures, using a spe cific log management platform by an application may restrict the application to the specific log management platform, rendering it difficult to switch to a diff erent log management platform without losing data and without making code modifi cations that impede the performance of the application.”