Machine-generated data
Machine Generated Data (MGD) describes information which was automatically created from a computer or other machine. While Machine Generated Data can be created due to some action by a human (ex: apache web logs, etc.), it excludes data manually entered by an end user (ex: personal hobbies on a social media site, video, pictures, etc.)[1].
Growth
In 2009, Gartner published that data will grow by 650% over the following five years.[2]
Examples of Machine Generated Data
- Web logs
- Call detail records
- Financial instrument trades
- Network event logs
- SIEM logs
- Telemetry collected by the government