topic Re: Do we have any possibility to monitor empty log file in Alerting

Do we have any possibility to monitor empty log file

mayana_khan_ext — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:16:59 GMT

Hi,

I want to monitor the log file and send an alert(problem) when the application process stops writing events to log file.

does anyone already implemented it?

Re: Do we have any possibility to monitor empty log file

wolfgang_beer — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:51:01 GMT

That one is tricky, but there is an upcoming alerting feature in Dynatrace release 212 (rollout in the next 2 weeks) that helps to solve that.

This feature allows you to alert on missing data.

So my proposed way would be:

1.) Define a log metric that writes a 1 for all kind of log lines

2.) Define a custom event for alerting if the number drops below a threshold AND alert if metric shows missing data (meaning no log lines are written anymore).

Re: Do we have any possibility to monitor empty log file

mayana_khan_ext — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:59:33 GMT

Ok Thanks for the quick help