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Specifically, a '''transaction log''' is a log of the communications between a system and the users of that system,<ref>Peters, T. (1993). The history and development of transaction log analysis. Library Hi Tech., 42(11), 41−66</ref> or a data collection method that automatically captures the type, content, or time of transactions made by a person from a terminal with that system.<ref>Rice, R. E., & Borgman, C. L. (1983). The use of computer-monitored data in information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 44, 247−256</ref> For Web searching, a transaction log is an electronic record of interactions that have occurred during a searching episode between a Web search engine and users searching for information on that Web search engine.

Many operating systems, software frameworks and programs include a logging system. A widely used logging standard is [[Syslog]], defined in [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF) [[Request for Comments|RFC]] 5424). The Syslog standard enables a dedicated, standardized subsystem to generate, filter, record, and analyze log messages. This relieves software developers of having to design and code their ad hoc logging systems.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://winscp.net/eng/docs/logging_xml|title=XML Logging :: WinSCP|website=winscp.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28752/Use-XML-for-Log-Files|title=Use XML for Log Files|date=August 22, 2008|website=CodeProject}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/articles/ms972965(v=msdn.10)|title=Turn Your Log Files into Searchable Data Using Regex and the XML Classes|website=learn.microsoft.com}}</ref>

== Event logs ==