
It should also be mentioned that if sites providing services do so in a cloud computing environment, it is particularly necessary to use a secure messaging method between the service and log archival sites. Furthermore, there are often cases when a service site is located far away from the log archival site. However, when the owner of a log generated by an application service is a system user, he or she might want to express a preference from the available log archival sites. When the owners of such logs are auditors or system managers, it has been thought that from the standpoint of manageability, it is better to accumulate logs at one site rather.

Internet services of numerous types are widely implemented at countless sites in today's worldwide computing environment, and the generated service logs they produce are important for assuring such systems work correctly.
