If you’re parsing logs or alerts with custom scripts, build in a quick normalization step at the beginning. Converting timestamps, trimming whitespace, or standardizing field names prevents subtle mismatches that can break correlations later. It’s a small cleanup pass that pays off when you’re stitching together evidence from different sources.
  clean = {
     "ts": parse_timestamp(raw.get("timestamp", "").strip()),
     "user": raw.get("user", "").lower().strip(),
     "ip": raw.get("ip", "").strip(),
   }
A little consistency in the data going in makes the analysis coming out far more reliable.
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-Kyle
