I have gone from agents to forwarders so next up is the Log Insight server! Why should you use Log Insight? Let me give you…
Log Insight + PagerDuty
Today, Log Insight system notifications consist of both informational messages and critical system alert messages. In this post, I will discuss how to only get…
vCenter Server Locale and Log Insight
As you know, Log Insight supports integration with vSphere. One part of the integration is the collection of vCenter Server events, tasks and alarms. If…
Upgrades: In-place versus Migration
I sat in on an interesting conversation recently where the question was raised whether upgrades for products should be done in-place versus via a migration.…
3 Additional Log Insight Clustering Use-cases
In Log Insight 2.0 a clustering feature was introduced. This feature made it possible to go above the configuration maximums of a single node, however…
VMworld 2015 Session Voting Now Open
It is that time of the year again, the VMworld 2015 session voting is now open!!! Read on to learn some interesting statistics for this…
Log Insight Ingestion API: Always using the Client Timestamp
If you remember reason 9 from my 12 reasons why you should use the Log Insight agent post then you may be wondering how you…
How to Change the Default Ports on Log Insight
By default, Log Insight is configured listen on the following ports: UI: 80/443 Syslog: 514/1514/6514 CFAPI: 9000/9543 The question becomes, how do you change these…
12 Reasons Why You Should Use The Log Insight Integrated Load Balancer
I have already talked about the differences between the ILB and an ELB, but I have heard requests for specific reasons why the ILB should…
Log Insight: Retention Period
From time-to-time, I receive a question asking what the current retention period is for a LI instance. In this post, I will discuss how Log…