Data logging

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Data logging is the practice of recording sequential data, often chronologically.

Etymology

To log is a verb derivative of the noun logbook; the verb form means to record in a logbook, and may have been coined in the 1820s^{[citation needed]}. The circa 1963 to describe the systematic recording of specific types of data processing events.

Automotive data logging

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In automobiles, all diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) are logged in engine control units (ECUs) so that at the time of service of a vehicle, a service engineer will read all the DTCs using Tech-II or similar tools and will come to know problems occurred in the vehicle.

See also

• Common Log Format
• Continuous emissions monitoring system
• Digital traces
• Java Logging Frameworks - logging frameworks for Java
• List of web analytics software
• Log management and intelligence
• MultiTail - tool for watching logging (for UNIX)
• Pantheios logging API library
• Server log
• Syslog
• Web counter
• Web log analysis software

References

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• log at the Online Etymology Dictionary

External links

• Syslog.org - Logging information, discussion and help site
• Data Logging tutorial using a microcontroller and HyperTerminal
• Beobachter, an opensource software to monitor log files
• A free PHP script for logging website access
• GCSE - Data Logging
• Data Logging - Features
• Dynamic Log Viewer - tool for watching logging for Microsoft Windows OS
• Building of systems of automatic C/C++ code logging