I am not sure if you caught the press release this morning, but Log Insight 3 (3.0 — was called 2.6 during the Tech Preview…
VMworld 2015 Starts Now — What Are You Excited About?
It is that time again — VMworld 2015 is here. For some of you, this might be your first VMworld, for others this may be…
Log Insight and fsck
Depending on how long you have been running Log Insight and how many times you have restarted it, you may notice that the virtual appliance…
Log Insight Best Practices: Agent
Expanding upon my last post on Log Insight server best practices, in this post I would like to discuss Log Insight agent — client-side and…
Log Insight Best Practices: Server
A pretty common question I get asked are what are the best practices when deploying/configuring Log Insight? While the information is available in the official…
Log Insight Agent: Text vs. Glob vs. Regex
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…
Content Packs vs. Management Packs
Log Insight has the notion of content packs while vRealize Operations Manager has the notion of management packs. In this post, I will talk about…
Log Insight Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager
I recently talked about the vRealize Operations content pack for Log Insight. In this post, I would like to talk about the Log Insight management…
vRealize Operations Manager Content Pack for Log Insight
As you probably know, there is a vRealize Operations Manager (vR Ops) content pack for Log Insight. In fact, one exists for vR Ops 5.x…
Log Insight Agent: Unavailable Remote Destination
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…