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As you probably know, the Log Insight agent allows you to explicitly include or exclude:

• filelog: log files within a directory
• winlog: Windows event viewer channels

One question I received at VMworld was if you could explicitly include or exclude:

• filelog: certain log messages from within a log file
• winlog: certain events from within Windows event viewer channels

In this post, I will provide the answer. Read on to learn more!

Back in the early Log Insight days, I wrote about the types of fields in Log Insight and which static fields were provided automatically (more in this post). Today, I would like to discuss the automatic static fields that the Log Insight agent provides. Read on to learn more!

I recently got back from VMworld US 2016 and one of the top asked questions was: Which VMware products come pre-installed with the Log Insight agent? In this post, I will address this question.

I have spent the last three weeks talking about the new agent parsing feature in Log Insight 3.0. I wanted to wrap-up by discussing why you should use agent parsers.

Recently someone reached out to me with an issue where the Log Insight agent was not collecting files that it should. I quickly uncovered the issue and thought that others may experience it so I figured I would discuss it.

The Log Insight agent functions similar to a syslog agent though is much more powerful. One question I often get asked is what happens if the remote destination the agent is configured to send events to is down? In this post, I will cover this exact question.