Monitoring is how you notice that something is wrong: an attack in progress, a failing control or a policy violation. Individual systems each produce logs, but an analyst cannot read dozens of separate log files in real time. Monitoring platforms bring them together so events can be searched, correlated and turned into alerts.
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