topic Re: Add custom Log File directory. in Log Analytics

Add custom Log File directory.

Mudasar — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:39:47 GMT

Hi Team,

We are unable to add custom log file directory monitoring.

Regards,

Mudasar

Re: Add custom Log File directory.

Mudasar — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:35:25 GMT

Hi ,

Please can help us to add the custom add custom log file directory monitoring.?

Regards,

Mudasar

Re: Add custom Log File directory.

Julius_Loman — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:57:31 GMT

Can you please elaborate on what you are trying to achieve? Monitor a directory for file? Add a directory into Log monitoring in Dynatrace? Which version of Log Monitoring in Dynatrace are you using (Log Monitoring 1 or Log Monitoring v2)?

Re: Add custom Log File directory.

anjali_menon — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:41:20 GMT

Hi Julius,

The ask is to monitor a log directory instead of an individual file.

Using log monitoring v2.

Application team creates new log files at regular intervals and it is a hassle to manually update each individual file for monitoring in Dynatrace. It would be beneficial, if Dynatrace is able to monitor a log directory/path.

Re: Add custom Log File directory.

Julius_Loman — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:28:08 GMT

If your log file is automatically detected by OneAget, you can enable log monitoring for the process group and each newly created log file will be monitored automatically.
Go to Settings > Log Monitoring > Log sources and storage and check if you can see the log file under the process group.

Re: Add custom Log File directory.

LeoK — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:34:54 GMT

Is it possible that the issue reported in this thread comes from the fact that a custom location of the log file is not capable of being monitored?

I'm having a similar issue. The commercial application that my company uses writes a log to a folder structure like this - d:\infogenesis\log_dir\20220413.pmi.

Log monitoring V2 has limitation where if the first or second folder in the path is not exactly like "log" or "logs", then you can't add that path to be monitored for logs. In my case, it's "log_dir" so I can't add it, get error "Specified filepath of log is not valid or not allowed"