Logs are a powerful way to investigate system issues as well as perform system auditing, but what protocol should you send events over? In this…
Log Insight 4.0: Support for Octet-framing
As you may know, there are several syslog RFCs. RFC 6587 covers, amongst other things, something called octet-framing. Previous versions of Log Insight only supported…
Log Insight: API Dropped versus Syslog Dropped
One question I get asked from time to time is why Log Insight has a syslog drop system notification, but it does not have an…
Log Insight: Syslog Event Forwarder Prefix
The event forwarder feature of Log Insight is powerful for a variety of reasons (several covered in this post). When it comes to event forwarding…
Log Insight 3.0: Event Forwarding
Log Insight has featured Event Forwarding since Log Insight 2.5. In Log Insight 3.0 a couple small, but important changes were made. Read on to…
Logging NSX with Log Insight
As you may know, there is a NSX for vSphere content pack available for Log Insight. Of course in order for the content pack to…
Log Insight: Ingestion API versus Syslog Protocol Part 2/2
In my last post, I talked about the differences between how events are displayed over the syslog protocol, which has a strict format structure, and…
Log Insight: Ingestion API versus Syslog Protocol Part 1/2
As you know, Log Insight introduced an ingestion API with the 2.0 release. This ingestion API can be used by anyone, but is leveraged by…
vSphere 6.0 Syslog Gotchas
If you are upgrading or have upgraded to vSphere 6.0, you should be aware of a couple syslog gotchas. These will be especially important if…
12 Reasons Why You Should Use The Log Insight Forwarder
Now that I have talked about the new forwarding feature in Log Insight 2.5, I would like to discuss why you should consider using it…
