Gathering relevant data

Gathering data - simple as it might be - is a task that needs to be well crafted. There are a few reasons for that. The first and most important is that we want to gather data in a way that will have minimum or zero impact on the production environment. This means that the process of collecting and storing data should not disturb any on-going process. The second important thing is storage. Where and how do you want to store the data and the retention policy of the stored data? At the beginning, this might seem a very trivial case, but over time, storage itself will play an important role. The third and also utterly important thing is which data you want to gather. Of course, we all want to have smart data present, that is, having all the data relevant for solving or improving our business processes. But in reality, gathering smart is neither that difficult...