If you are in a secure environment where port requirements need to known, you may wonder what the port requirements are for Log Insight. While…
Generating Syslog Configurations with syslogify
As of late, I have needed to generate syslog configurations to monitors log files multiple times. A great example would be generating the syslog configurations…
vCAC remote logging
I have been spending a lot of time working with vCAC logs files as of late and what I realized is that vCAC is made…
Multiline regex gotcha
Continuing with the regex theme this week, I would like to cover a corner case with regular expression matching to be aware of. The example…
Log Insight: Regex Tutorial
Log Insight allows for powerful and complex java-based regular expression queries. The Log Insight documentation briefly touches on regular expression examples. I would like to…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 2
In part 1 of the article, I talked about a bug in ESXi when using AutoDeploy that log messages would have the hostname set to…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 1
Have you ever seen ESXi syslog events that have a the hostname field set to localhost no matter how the ESXi host or the syslog…
UPDATED! ESXi Stops Sending Syslog Messages to Remote Syslog Destinations
Back in May of last year I wrote about how ESXi would stop sending syslog messages to remote syslog destinations if a remote syslog destination…
Log Insight: Gap in Data on Charts – Part 2
In my last post, I explained why you might see a gap in data on Log Insight charts. In this post, I would like to…
Log Insight: Gap in Data on Charts – Part 1
A common question I get asked is, “Why do I see a gap in data on Log Insight charts?” I would like to answer this…