Logentries announced a new log analysis reporting service that offers Logentries customers a weekly roll-up of log-level metrics, data visualizations, and trending activity to enable quicker, more intelligent understanding of system activity.

The reports were developed by the Logentries Data Insights team to offer an extension to customer’s own data analytics efforts, without requiring the valuable time and resources of traditional log collection and analysis.

The overwhelming growth of machine data has made collecting, filtering, and analyzing distributed log data challenging for organizations of all sizes. Once Dev and IT Ops teams have centralized their log data from across servers and applications, it’s critical to be able to quickly dig into the data and highlight the most important events, system changes, anomalies and potential issues. The new Logentries Log Analysis reporting service does this automatically for customers, highlighting business-critical metrics such as most active and inactive logs; system usage breakdown by time of day, users, locations; and overall weekly trends. Logentries’ log-level visibility uniquely provides a much more fine-grained view of applications than traditional log management solutions, allowing customers to pinpoint issues and identify how specific processes might be causing unexpected changes, spikes, or problematic results within their application and server environments.

“Separating the signal from the noise is a big challenge when dealing with machine-generated log data today and often requires deep technical expertise,” said Trevor Parsons, Chief Scientist at Logentries. “The new Logentries reporting service is designed to provide log-level visibility into application activity, trends and potential issues and deliver these insights right into your inbox. We do the hard work for you.”