Log management and security
If you ask system administrators in casual conversation at the bar, you might believe that it is a major task for system administrators to collect all of their system logs and to spend hours each day manually and skillfully going through them line by line looking for system errors and malicious actors. Reality is very different. No one is doing this, no one was ever doing this, and no company is interested in paying for people to do this. Log reading is a serious skill and an activity that is excessively boring. It is also a type of task at which humans are extremely poor.
If you were to attempt to have humans doing your log management by actually reading logs when there is nothing known to be wrong with a system you would run into a few problems. First, realistically no human can read logs fast enough to be truly effective. Systems log a lot of data and attempting to keep up with that kind of flow of truly mindless information would make humans extremely...
