This article explains the process of collecting, normalizing, enriching, indexing, and storing logs from diverse systems to provide a single searchable source of truth for operations and security teams.

It highlights the key criteria to evaluate in a solution — source integrations, real-time ingestion and search, scalability and tiered storage, query and visualization capabilities, and alerting/automation — and explains why those features matter for troubleshooting, threat detection, and compliance.

The piece compares six representative platforms (including Logmanager, Datadog, Splunk, Better Stack, Elastic Stack, and Graylog), summarizes the strengths and trade-offs of each, and recommends trying a vendor demo or free tier to validate fit for your environment.