topic Re: collecting logs from network shares on Windows in Log Analytics

collecting logs from network shares on Windows

stephenM — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:51:56 GMT

We have an increase in application teams writing their app logs to network file shares instead of the local OS disks.

These file shares require AD level permissions to read the log files.

Since the Dynatrace OneAgent runs as either Local system or Local service how are people collecting logs that need to a user account to access them?

A more detailed example, our IBM MQ is setup in a multi instance configuration. The active node writes the MQ logs to \\nethshare\MQ\Error.log for example.

What options do we have to collect these logs into Dynatrace.

Re: collecting logs from network shares on Windows

AntonPineiro — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:42:58 GMT

Hi,

We have different ways to ingest logs in Dynatrace.

Best regards

Re: collecting logs from network shares on Windows

Peter_Youssef — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:24:00 GMT

Hello @stephenM

Dynatrace supports multiple methods of Logs ingestion either directly via the installed Oneagents or through the API.

OneAgent: lma-log-ingestion-via-oa
API : lma-generic-log-ingestion
Syslog ingestion via ActiveGate: lma-ingestion-syslog
Custom Log Sources - permissions on Network File System (NFS)
If you have a future use case in Observe cloud network traffic with logs this is Dynatrace guidance reference.

Hoping it helps.

BR,

Peter.