In that sentence, "these records" means "information about how GitHub's servers are behaving," not, say, "user data." It is technically true that such a tool c

In that sentence, "these records" means "information about how GitHub's servers are behaving," not, say, "user data." It is technically true that such a tool could be used on any sort of data, in the same way that, say, Perl or SQL can be used on any sort of data.