The need for speed, full-stack visibility and agility -- all in real time -- is the true business demand underpinning the growth of machine data analytics.
Log Management Will Lead to Democratization of Analytics
The use of analytics to monitor, manage and gather insights from user, application or infrastructure logs will be the only near-perfect way to address the growing complexity of cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructures. We've already seen vendor consolidation and are likely to see new vendors try and move into the logs analytics space. As such, this will increase organizational awareness of the value of log management to support application development, security and IT operational success. This will be the first sign of the democratization of analytics.