I frequently get questions around how to forward only certain log files from ESXi or how to collect a log file that is missing. I…
12 Reasons Why You Should Use The Log Insight Agent
When the Log Insight Windows agent was released in version 2.0, the decision to use the agent was easy because Windows does not natively support…
vRA Remote Logging
My post on vCAC logging has been quite popular since its release. With VMware’s release of new and updated management products at the end of…
Log Insight Cluster: Data Not Balanced Across Nodes
In Log Insight 2.0 a scale-out feature was introduced. The best practice when using scale-out is to configure an external load balancer in front of…
Log Insight: Importing Existing Logs
One question I get over and over again is can you / how do you import existing logs into Log Insight? The common use-cases are:…
Log Insight Agent: Deploying the Windows Agent
This week, I would like to talk about the Windows agent available in Log Insight 2.0. First up, I would like to cover how to…
Log Insight: Syslog Agents and Multiline Messages
There appears to be some confusion on Log Insight’s support of multiline messages that I would like to clear up. The title gives it away,…
ESXi syslog – A general system error occurred: Internal error
A long time ago, I talked about an internal error message I received on ESXi. The workaround was to reboot the ESXi host, which is…
ESXi: Got no data from process
I hit an interesting issue the other day when attempting to reconfigure remote syslog on some ESXi hosts. What followed was an exercise on troubleshooting…
Log Insight: vSphere Integration
One of the great features of Log Insight is its tight integration with other VMware products. One of these integrations is with vSphere. I have…