Basic monitoring options

This tutorial covers the following topics:

• Selecting the "Monitor" mode in a search/monitor tab

• Defining monitoring criteria

• Starting monitoring

• Analyzing your monitoring results

• Saving the monitoring results to a file

For more detailed tutorials on monitoring please read our tutorial on monitoring containers from Docker and Kubernetes and our tutorial on searching and monitoring local log files.

Step 1

Open a new search tab, choose a profile and select Monitor mode.

Step 2

Add monitoring criteria.

Step 3

Define monitoring criteria.

• Provide desired text

• Select logical condition for parameters (AND if all parameters must be met, OR if only either of the parameters must be met)

Step 4

Start monitoring by clicking the Start monitor button.

Step 5

To stop monitoring you can press the Stop monitor button.

Step 6

Analyze your results.

• Browse your results

• Sort by different columns

• Apply local filters (Text, log level or time filters)

• Change highlighting

• Click on the desired element to view the entire log entry data

• Right click on the table row and find out about contextual functionality.

Step 7

Save the results for further analysis in different formats.

This is an example of data from Retrospective saved to an excel file.