If you maintain a regular practice of keeping log data, you probably have an established way of observing event logs in real time or you do it by using batch processing. There are two ways you can monitor event logs: manually and automatically. By monitoring event logs, you can gain deeper insight into system metrics, localize process bottlenecks, and detect security vulnerabilities. What are some other advantages of event log monitoring, and how can you get the most out of it?

Many of our customers want a simple way to see how often an event happens. In the past, LogDNA’s graphing capabilities helped to fulfill this need, but it took you away from your current log context and often forced you to recall a specific query in order to reflect the correct graph. When you are troubleshooting with constantly changing queries, it can be cumbersome to do this. We are excited to announce Timeline, now available alongside your logs in the log viewer.

Microsoft Azure has long proven it’s a force to consider in the world of cloud computing. Over the past year, Azure has made some significant steps in bridging the gap with AWS by offering new services and capabilities as well as competitive pricing.

Today we are releasing the first release candidate of Graylog v3.0. This release brings a whole new content pack system, an overhauled collector sidecar, reporting capabilities, improved alerting with greater flexibility, a new script alert notification plugin, support for Elasticsearch 6.x, a preview version of an awesome new search page called Views, and tons of other improvements and bug fixes.

When developing PHP applications, error logs are under-used because of their apparent complexity. PHP error logs are helpful, especially when configured and used properly. While there are advanced tricks to truly squeeze every last drop of utility out of error logs, this article will cover the basics of configuration and the most common use cases so you can get up and running quickly.

Gaining visibility into modern IT environments is a challenge that an increasing number of organizations are finding difficult to overcome. Yes–the advent of cloud computing and virtually “unlimited” storage has made it much easier to solve some of the traditional challenges involved in gaining visibility. However, architecture has evolved into microservices, containers and scheduling infrastructure.

An immeasurable amount of data, in its raw, unfiltered form, exists all around us. For most of us, to be able to properly categorize and “read” that data, we first must convert it into a format that we can understand – which is where the log viewer comes in.

API access is available at the Enterprise tier of our product. With it, you can create a whole range of heavily customized use cases to further expand our suite of offerings. For example, you can hit our API to send customized query results to a third party service like Nagios, or you can automate the creation and deletion of sub-accounts.

Being proactive is one of the key elements of a successful company. We are always seeking ways to help you perform at your best. With this goal in mind, we have been working on enhancements over the past couple of months in our alerting logic. Today, we’re proud to announce another highly anticipated feature from LogDNA: Absence Alerting!

What is log file parsing and how does structuring your logs affect parsing efficiency? Learn the difference between structured and unstructured logs, the basics of the JSON log format, what kind of information you can get when you parse log files, and which tools and utilities to use to perform log file parsing.