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Hello,

 

In our environment we have different needs for log retention. For example my vsphere logs can be aged after a month while my firewall logging should never be deleted.

 

so i would like to have a retention option per host or something.

 

Regards

Provide the ability to dump raw events more than 20K at a time. The user should have the ability to run an export query and retrieve the results. (eg. User provides a date range and requisite filters.)

Dashboards make it possible to view data visually over time and alerts make it possible to get notified about events seen in the environment. What is needed is true reporting and more specifically:

* Scheduling of when to run reports (both time of day and frequency)
* Ability to at least email reports (pdf, html, and csv should be supported at a minimum)
* Ability to include dashboards in reports (including legends)... more »

Currently there is no alerting when Log Insight Master or Worker is not receiving logs/API events from its workers or agents. Part of the PCI compliance requires notification when a stoppage of logs is detected.

 

If this could be an alarm, or an automated email that is sent out, and have the ability to set certain thresholds (no logs within 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 3 hours, etc), that would be great.

Allow for the reception and logging to SNMP traps; also allow for sending SNMP traps as alerts. All configuration should be in the UI.

An administrator may deem some messages undesirable, either specific logs produced by a source or a whole source. Such messages may result in CPU/disk resources being expended unnecessarily. Undesired log messages may result in Log Insight's data store being rotated more quickly than desired. In terms of licensing, one may wish to drop log messages from unlicensed sources, restricting sources from which log messages are... more »

Log Insight should facilitate understanding transactional flows, where a group of log messages tell a story together. The transaction identifier should be definable in content packs and by users, similar to an extracted field.

For example:
- vCenter, vpxa and hostd tasks are identified by an opID, relating task Start, Finish and subtasks within.
- ESXi vMotion tasks are identified by an MigID, relating Source and Destination... more »

Integrate Log Insight's authentication with vCenter's PSC. vROPs has a great integration with the PSC which can be used as a model.

Currently we must statically add AD DC as a source which will eventually change and then AD authentication will be lost until manually re-configured.

In customer's environment, all logs are usually collected by VMware LogInsight. Because all logs are in the centralized location would be good if there is a way how to automatically send them to VMware support (GSS).

We currently have in LogInsight export event results feature (see attached picture) with two options:

1) Export Event Results
2) Export Chart Data

This feature allows us to EXPORT logs (TXT / JSON /... more »

The agent should support globs (asterisk and wildcard) for folders. THe use case is IIS where multiple domains exist on the same server. Something like this

 

directory= E:\sitecoredata\*\Data\logs

include=log*.txt

So then I could make one that does them all type thing.

 

Globs are supported for files so this is an inconsistency in the product as well.

Extend vR Ops to integration beyond notification and launch in context: deliver metrics (i.e. number of events, number of error / warning events, number of tasks, kernel warnings, VOB events) to vROps and match it to existing vROps objects (vCenter, hosts, VMs).

I was wondering if you guys could make the data be zipped/dedupped during the night? If it already does dedup or something I guess its fine but it would seem that log insight takes a lot more space then our other logging system. We are trying to move everything to log insight but space constraints don't seem to be matching up.

Allow log insight to analyze internal (linux and application) logs in the same instance. Currently it is not supported to redirect log insight logs to itself.

I love that the 1.5 version includes related kb articles in the notes section of each query in the content pack. I'd like to see this taken further. Add a link to the KB each log result from a search.

We are using a third party SIEM. Due to the layout of the network and security requirements, we can only use log insight if it can forward all syslog and event log data to our SIEM. The problem is that the SIEM relies on the source IP of the system that generated the syslog data to be able to do its analytics. It creates a log source for each new syslog packet with a distinct IP address. We would like to use Log Insight,... more »