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feature inquiry, logs

I'm currently an Orion NPM user, but we do not have APM. We are looking to expand our application monitoring capabilities and so are looking at the features of APM. Well the Solarwinds website has a ton of broken links concerning APM so I can't seem to get all the basic info right now. One of our requirements for an application monitoring solution is to parse application logs for errors. Does APM have the native ability to grab and inspect logs as specified by the APM administrator? So basically I would tell tell it, log is here: "\\server1\d$\app\CustomApp.log", poll the log every 5 mins, alert if any line contains "ERROR". Can APM do this or something similar, preferably without an agent (or third party tool)?

Thanks

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byrona

Does the log collecting, parsing, and alerting functionality provided with NPM not give you what you need?

lhorstma

As far as I know (in my version at least, NPM 9.1 SP5), there is only the Syslog server, which will collect and alert off syslog messages that are sent to it. That doesn't meet the requirements I've been asked to look for in relation to checking remote logs as it requires third party agents to be installed on all MS servers requiring log checks, so the administrative overhead is cumbersome if we are trying to do more enterprise wide monitoring rather than monitor servers onsie twosies. I was hoping APM would have more advanced log checking resources, particularly hoping to poll data, rather than depending on the remote server to push it.

MarieB

Hi lhorstma--

Would you mind telling me where the broken links are so I can ask the proper people to fix them?

Thanks,

jiri.tomek

Hello,
APM supports custom windows/linux scripts so you can use this feature to monitor log files in any way you need. You can write your custom script that suits your needs or you can look in "Content exchange" section of this site for any user-made templates for this.

lhorstma

Hi lhorstma--
Would you mind telling me where the broken links are so I can ask the proper people to fix them?
Thanks,
M

Looks like they have already been fixed. Thanks.