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Which "action rule" wrote an event to the NPM Event Log?

Hello,

I'm trying to limit the number of events that get logged to our NPM (12.1) event log. I have a quite a number of "action names" defined that are set to "WritetoNPMEventLog" but can't match up the action triggered to determine which one of them generated the message in the event log.

For example how do I find out which action rule generates "Group All Copier Nodes is Up" event? if I click on the message there it just takes me to the group name I created called 'All Copier Nodes" I tried to disable 4 actions that's appeared to generate them but they still get logged.

The only columns I see in the event log is "Time of Event" and "Message." A column called "Event triggered by X" would be great but that's not an option.

Thanks,

Been racking my brain to find out!

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mesverrum

When I first started to use Orion I was chasing every random yellow dot that showed up in the events. Eventually I realized that most of what's in there is really nothing worth thinking about so I usually remove the event widgets from all my summary views and just focus on active and historical alerts. If it didn't trigger an alert I must not have cared. Makes things much easier to focus on that way.

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DazedNConfused

The below is another event that is useless to us. Note that I would rather not just filter the view to exclude specific messages but to not write them to the event log in the first place.

mesverrum

The majority of what goes into the event log is not from alert actions, its just how SW tracks internal stuff. Both of the examples you gave look like they are built in events that you can't control.

mesverrum

DazedNConfused

Ok. I suppose there is a filter the event logs thru SQL but that will have to be for another time.

Thank you for the quick response.