It's a Central Nervous System, Not a Monitoring Tool
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Argues Splunk, Elasticsearch, and New Relic are not just monitoring tools but a central nervous system that aggregates, correlates, models, and can drive action. Reframes logs as sources of future-state signals by adding planned outage event entries and using alerts to create a ticket or trigger low‑risk automation. Shows evolution from raw files to structured logs, centralized correlation, and practical next steps that move teams from observing to acting.
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