BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Software services can typically be configured to generate logging data. This data can be generated during a variety of scenarios including during the initialization step of a software service, during the steady-state operation of a service, on error handling, and/or while performing routine or uncommon software service sub-tasks, among others. The logging data can contain state information, timing and/or date information, as well as a variety of messages including error and/or informational messages. For example, logging data for a software service can contain log entries where each entry includes a timestamp and information related to and corresponding to the state of the software service or a component of the service at the moment of the timestamp. Depending on the frequency and verbosity of the logging configuration, it is not uncommon for a service to generate multiple logs where each log can include hundreds of log entries (or more) with multiple entries generated per second. While voluminous, this data can be critical for understanding the behavior of the software service and its sub-components. For example, administrators, technology support staff, customers, and others may examine generated log files to identify usage patterns, confirm functioning behavior, isolate and identify non-functioning behavior, and/or track performance and resource usage, among other purposes.

