Log management plays an important role in helping to debug Kubernetes clusters, improve their efficiency, and monitor them for any suspicious activity. Kubernetes is an open-source cluster management software designed for the deployment, scaling, and operations of containerized applications.

While the Capital One breach may have been jaw-dropping in its sheer scale, there are best practice lessons to be learned in its remediation response, says Nick Carstensen, technical product evangelist at Graylog.

Today, most enterprises rightfully think about their business strategies by leveraging available data. Data-driven decisions certainly are more solid and reliable than those based upon mere instinct, intuition or just plain mysticism. Logs, in particular, are a fantastic source of information from which a company can draw to fuel its business intelligence (BI) strategies. However, there’s a big and sometimes unbridgeable gap between theory and practice.

What makes data structured or unstructured and how does that affect your logging efforts and information gain? Below we've provided a comparison of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Also below, we discuss ways to turn unstructured data into structured data.