Application data

Organizations employ a variety of commercial and custom, in-house built applications to help their operations run efficiently.

• Application debug logs provide a record of program behavior that is necessary to identify and fix software defects, security vulnerabilities or performance bottlenecks. While test logs record the output results of application usage, debug logs provide information about an application’s internal state, including the contents of variables, memory buffers and registers; a detailed record of API calls; and even a step-by-step trace through a particular module or subroutine.

• Structured Query Language (SQL) statements are the main interface in relational databases. SQL statements are used to create, read, update, and delete data in the database. Visibility into this activity enables you to do all of the following and more:

  • Detect and identify long running queries as candidates for optimization
  • Detect and identify slow queries as candidates for optimization
  • Monitor trends in query behavior for capacity and planning
  • Detect unauthorized data access 
  • Attest to compliance with data governance controls and rules