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Introduction to Log Data Transfer in VCF Operations 9 With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, Logs is now more integrated into Operations. Moving from Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.x to VCF 9 does not support a direct, in-place upgrade, instead, administrators must perform a fresh deployment of the 9.0 appliance. This deployment …
Introduction As organizations modernize their Private Clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the logging infrastructure undergoes a significant evolution. Transitioning from VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.x (formerly vRealize Log Insight) to the new VCF Operations for Logs 9 is designed as a side-by-side migration requiring a fresh deployment. While there is a fully supported …
Recently, a customer asked me if it’s possible to monitor or retrospectively see which user performed specific actions in NSX using the tools available in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack — essentially, a typical user actions audit for NSX. Although we don’t have an exact match in the current Aria Operations for Logs NSX …
As is likely known to everyone, the integration between VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs involves forwarding alarms generated in Aria Operations for Logs to Aria Operations. If the integration has also established the link between the origin of the log message that triggered the alarm and the object in Aria Operations, the …
Since the release of vRealize Log Insight 8.8, you can configure log forwarding from vRealize Log Insight to vRealize Log Insight Cloud without the need to deploy any additional Cloud Proxy. It is the Cloud Forwarding feature in Log Management, which makes it very easy to forward all or only selected log messages from your …
Recently I was asked how to quickly estimate the vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) data usage per day and I have checked several, more or less obvious, approaches. Usually, this question comes up when a customer is either re-designing the vRLI cluster or migrating to the vRealize Log Insight Cloud instance. To answer that question we …
The Webhook feature in vRealize Log Insight is a great way to execute automation tasks, push elements in a RabbitMQ message queue or start any other REST operation. Many endpoints providing such REST methods require a token-based authentication, like the well-known Bearer Token. vRealize Automation is one example of such endpoints. It is pretty easy …
As you probably know vRealize Operations provides several symptom definitions based on message events as part of the vCenter Solution content OOTB. You can see some of them in the next picture. These events are used in alert definitions to raise vReaalize Operations alarms any time one of those events is triggered in any of …
It all started with my last electricity bill. Shortly after I have recovered from the shock and made sure that I really do not have any aluminum smelter running in my basement, I decided, I need some kind of monitoring of my electric energy consumption. Insights into data is the first and probably most important step …
Last year I published a blog post focusing on the JSON parser available in vRealize Log Insight (https://thomas-kopton.de/vblog/?p=144) and I believe this could have been a beginning of a series – “vRLI Parsers “. In this post I will show how to configure and utilize the CSV parser using a very prominent and media-effective use …