# Custom Defining Log File Formats

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523>\
**Category:** Logs\
**Tags:** log-monitoring-class\
**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523 "2018-03-19T12:14:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![adam\_gardner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/adam_gardner/32/20087_2.png) [@adam\_gardner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/adam_gardner)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523/1 "2018-03-19T12:14:44Z")

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Is there a way we can custom define our log file formats or is this “baked” into the product internals?

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**Author:** ![khoros\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f9ae1b/32.png) [@khoros\_anonymous](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/khoros_anonymous)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523/2 "2018-03-19T15:48:44Z")

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Hi Adam,

This is baked into the product. As there are many, many different ways that log files can be formatted, great care is taken to make sure many different log formats can be detected correctly. If you have a format that you think should be recognized but isn’t, I would open a ticket with support.

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**Author:** ![pawel\_brzoska](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/pawel_brzoska/32/18892_2.png) [@pawel\_brzoska](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/pawel_brzoska)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523/3 "2018-03-19T18:50:40Z")

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Adam, when you say “log format” why do you exactly mean ? Byte-format (e.g. text vs binary), log entry format (e.g. single-line vs json vs xml), timestamp format or organization of the fields in the single log entry ?

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**Author:** ![pawel\_brzoska](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/pawel_brzoska/32/18892_2.png) [@pawel\_brzoska](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/pawel_brzoska)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/custom-defining-log-file-formats/11523/4 "2018-05-30T12:37:28Z")

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Update: this is on the roadmap.