InfluxData has released new capabilities to speed up the visualization and analysis of structured application and system events captured via log files, providing a "metrics first" approach that enables developers to easily ingest, correlate, and visualize all time series data. The platform now supports high-speed parsing and ingestion using the syslog protocol, custom log parsing, and pre-built log visualization components, allowing users to rapidly understand where and how to interrogate large volumes of event data contained within logs without performing expensive search queries. This release is expected to enable faster problem investigation and root-cause analysis capabilities, reducing guesswork and prior knowledge required to sift through log data. The new solution provides improved workflows for log visualization and analysis, allowing developers to easily analyze captured log events for a specific time interval and narrow down data by important metadata elements.