topic Re: Log monitoring wildcards in Log Analytics

Log monitoring wildcards

Agoyals — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:25:18 GMT

Hi,

I am new to Dynatrace. Looking to monitor some logs which present in multiple directory (multi depth). Trying to find a way where can define a single source so it can cover all the matching pattern logs recursively in all sub directories.

example:
/logs/abc.gc.log
/logs/xyz/abc.gc.log
/logs/zys/xyz/abc.gc.log

I was trying something like this but seems incorrect

/logs/**/abc.gc.log (this doesn't cover multiple depths)

Is there any way where we can define this in single source ?

Re: Log monitoring wildcards

AntonPineiro — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:36:44 GMT

Hi,

You can check Log file matching.

Best regards

Re: Log monitoring wildcards

Agoyals — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:01:20 GMT

Its not mentioned there that's why checking here. if any one else experienced such requirement and have idea how to configure such use case.

Re: Log monitoring wildcards

AntonPineiro — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:58:49 GMT

Hi,

Do you see which logs are autodiscovered by OneAgent?

Best regards

Re: Log monitoring wildcards

lubrman — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:07:21 GMT

Hi @Agoyals

It’s strange that ** didn’t work, as it should recursively ignore the number of nested directories.
Perhaps a possible solution would be to define in Grail “File name equals abc.gc.log” along with the condition “Path contains /logs/”.