Custom log file monitoring.

[amitbsht321]

Hi Team,

We planning to monitor a custom log file that is not part of any process and process group. We have tried to enable the log monitoring using below product article.

Add log files manually | Dynatrace Docs

But it's not working out. Is their any configuration needed apart from this.

Regards,

Amit Singh Bisht

[julien_duhamel1]

Hin

What type of storage your logs files are located?

[mackermann2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Amit, 

Please check the prerequisites to the definition of the path (especially the use of the wildcards which can be a problem) :

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/log-monitoring-add-log-files-v2#considerations-for-... 

I suggest also to check the encodage of the log files (ASCII not supported and considered as a binary file):

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/log-monitoring-supported-format#plain-text-logs 

Finally, just verify the log monitoring has been enabled in the agent configuration (ruxitagentloganalytics.conf) : 

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/log-monitoring-configuration#example 

Regards,

Matthieu