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How to Send Log Data via a Proxy Server using Rsyslog
If you have a large number of servers you may have a requirement to
configure proxy servers in various parts of your network to accept messages and
then forward them to a centralized logging solution or service
[https://logentries.com]. We regularly see this with larger customers where it
makes sense to collect logs centrally before sending them on to Logentries for
analysis. In some cases this can be a more stringent requirement where parts of
your network may not have direct access to the publ
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How To Monitor Windows with Logentries
We are often asked at Support questions such as, “How do we use Logentries to
monitor Windows performance stats?” or “Can Logentries get alerts based on CPU
utilization on Windows?” The simple answer is yes, with the help of our
Logentries Agent for Windows [https://logentries.com/doc/agent/] and PowerShell
we can.
Here is a 5 minute tutorial to get you monitoring your CPU, Memory and Disk
Space [https://Logentries.com/product/why-use-us/] with Logentries.
Installing the Logentries Agent
You
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How to Configure Rsyslog with Any Log File; Agents Bad...No Agents Good...
Last week I wrote “In Defense of the Agent [/2013/12/in-defense-of-the-agent/].”
One of the main advantages of using agents is the ability to easily get the
agent configured to monitor logs of any type
[https://Logentries.com/product/why-use-us/] no matter where those logs live on
your file system. We posted the article on Reddit and there were some
interestingcomments
[http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sjyic/in_defense_of_the_agent/] and
discussion – it’s fairly obvious that there is
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5 Uses for Log Data That You Never Thought Of
When you think of logs, what do you think of? It’s most likely troubleshooting
software applications and the infrastructure that underlies them, keeping an eye
on your production apps…perhaps even database logs and some other things like
that. Traditional log management [https://logentries.com/] stuff…I’m guessing
it’s not sports cars, law enforcement, lighting, marketing metrics, and beer.
Well guess what? It can be!
1) Fact Check a Journalist
Back in February of 2013 The New York Times publis
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IT Ops
Log Management 101 - Where Do Logs Come From?
We’ve had a lot of people asking for the Log Management
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what-is-log-management/] Primer for a while
now. And, surprisingly, many of these folks have a strong technical background,
including developers. Some want it for themselves, and some want it to pass on
to a colleague, manager, etc. I’m going to explain what logs are, where they
come from and how you can get your logs.
If you’re a developer, this post probably isn’t for you as we don’t dig into the
code
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Where Are My AWS Logs?
Over my time at Logentries, we’ve had users contact us about where to find their
logs while they were setting up Logentries
[https://logentries.com/centralize-log-data-automatically/?le_trial=aws_logs-logentries_blog-post_cta-create_trial&utm_campaign=aws_logs&utm_source=logentries_blog&utm_medium=post_cta&utm_content=create_trial]
. As a result, we recently released a feature for Amazon Web Services called the
AWS Connector, which automatically discovers your log files across your Linux
EC2 ins
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How to Easily Get All Your Logs from AWS EC2
Let’s say that you, like many of your colleagues, are hosting your application
on AWS’s EC2 cloud infrastructure. You’re chugging along at a steady rate of
growth when BAM! One day you get a spike of traffic and have to scale up
quickly. “Good job,” you think as you pat yourself on the back in your mind,
“this choice to host in the cloud means we can easily handle this load spike
without a problem. We’ve set it to auto-scale, so we’ll have all the instances
we need.” But is everything all good?
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How To Track Peak Load and Memory Usage vs Response Time on Heroku
A few months back Heroku introduced log-runtime-metrics, which you can enable
[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/log-runtime-metrics#enabling] from the
command line to insert CPU load and memory usage metrics into your log events at
20 second intervals.
Like all log data in its raw format it’s not massively useful to see metrics
getting dumped into your logs every 20 seconds. That’s not exactly what Heroku
had in mind, however. At the same time they introduced log-runtime-metrics,
Heroku al
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IT Ops
How To Receive Log Alerts Via Flashing Lights In Your Office or Home
This is a guest blog post by Jason Ruane, the technical director atMoposa
[http://www.moposa.com/], a place for brides and grooms to plan and manage their
wedding. In this post Jason describes how he used a Wi-Fi enabled light and
Logentries alerts to receive Logentries alerts via flashing lights in his house.
Jason and his team are long time users of Logentries, analyzing all their logs
from multiple servers in one centralized, cloud location.
How I receive my Logentries alerts via home lighti
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How to Log Client-side JavaScript Events – Logging for the Web with le.js
At Logentries we provide a comprehensive collection of client libraries
[https://github.com/logentries]and inputs [https://logentries.com/doc/inputs/]
which make it easy to dispatch log events from any tier in your existing
infrastructure. Until now though, one platform has been left out, and it’s the
most ubiquitous and widely-understood of all- the browser. Collecting events
from the browser presents a number of challenges which have hindered the
development of a viable solution:
* There’s n
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Field-level search
Back in July we announced a substantial improvement to our search functionality,
searching your log data with logical operators
[/2013/07/searching-with-logical-operators/]. Today we are happy to announce
another big step in improving our search facility. You can now perform **
field-level searches [https://logentries.com/doc/search/]**in Logentries.
Field-level searches allow you to search for events where a particular field is
equal to, less than or greater than a particular value and thus al
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Build your own SMS Alerts--Logentries and Clickatell Combined!
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This is a guest blog post by Jason Ruane, the technical director at Moposa
[http://www.moposa.com/], a place for brides and grooms to plan and manage their
wedding. In this post Jason, describes how he used Logentries webhook alerts and
Clickatell to receive Logentries alerts via SMS. Jason and his team are long
time users of logentries, analyzing all their logs from multiple servers in one
centralized, cloud location.
How I receive my Logentries
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How to Best Structure your Logs: Log Analysis Tips and Best Practices with Gal Segal from eToro
This week we have a guest blog post by Gal Segal. Gal is an engineer at eToro
[https://www.etoro.com/en/platforms/openbook/], the worlds Largest Social
Trading & Investment Network. In this post Gal shares his thoughts on log
analysis best practices including tips on how best to structure your logs as
well as some useful patterns that can be applied within your log events. He also
discusses how to use Logentries’ new log search
[https://logentries.com/doc/search/] functionality to more easily
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Customer Spotlight with Adept Mobile: Ever wonder how the New England Patriots/Miami Dolphins/Boston Celtics handle website demand capacity
We’re launching a new customer Q&A series, where we chat with our customers
about how they’re using log data [https://logentries.com/about-us/], their
technology stack, and their overall industry insights. We love talking to our
users, because we always learn something new – and we’d like to share those
insights with you.
In our first interview, we caught up with Craig Heneveld, Director of Technology
at Adept Mobile in Boston, to talk about the development challenges and
successes of bringing
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Heroku Account Consolidation-Single View of all your Logs
If you host multiple apps on Heroku, you know the pain of having to log in to a
separate add-on account for each of your Heroku apps. Whether you’re monitoring
several different production applications, have separate apps for your
production, staging, and test environments, or are a consultant in charge of
administering separate applications for each of your clients you know how
irritating it can be to constantly have to switch between accounts.
This is particularly annoying when you’re trying