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Max number of Strings per Rule?

I'm curious what the recommended max number of "Log Entries" are in one Log Analyzer Rule? How many strings are too many?

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jvb

That is an interesting question ... I will have to ask the team if there is any limit or a number that is reasonable to keep it under.

jvb

I should have asked... Do you already have a rule with quite a lot of them that isn't working or is the question more theoretical in nature?

jere557

I have a rule with about 75 different strings in them, and the website freezes when trying to load it, but eventually will load everything. I also have a support case open for this but after 2 days, no one has touched it yet. One rule i need to create has about 399 entries to look for, and in creating one that needed approx 200, i broke it out in chunks of 50 when 70+ seemed unmanageable.

jvb

Can you send me the ticket number so I can check on the progress of the case?

mesverrum

Can you be a bit more specific about the nature of your rule? If there are 400 variations on the log message is that really all tracking back to a single type of issue or is this lots of different situations?