VMware vCenter Log Insight is the new solution of VMware for log management and analytics. It delivers superior technology for automated log management through log analytics, aggregation, and search, and an easy to use user interface. Log Insight provides the operational intelligence needed to proactively enable service levels and operational efficiency in dynamic hybrid cloud environments.
VMware vCenter Log Insight addresses these challenges and enables improved quality of service, operational efficiency and continuous compliance.
Log Insight includes the following key capabilities:
- Collects and analyzes all types of machine-generated log data, e.g. application logs, network traces, configuration files, messages, performance data, system state dumps, and more.
- Enables administrators to connect it to everything in their environment, e.g. operating systems, applications, storage arrays, firewalls, network devices etc., providing a single location to collect, store, and analyze logs at scale.
- Features an intuitive GUI-based interface that makes it easy to run simple interactive searches as well as deep analytical queries for quick, actionable insights.
- Automatically chooses the best visualization for your data, saving you valuable time.
- Adds structure to all types of unstructured log data, enabling administrators to troubleshoot quickly, without needing to know the data beforehand.
- Delivers real-time monitoring, search, and analytics, coupled with a dashboard for stored queries, reports, and alerts, enabling correlation of events across multiple tiers of a hybrid cloud environment.
- Comes with built-in knowledge and native support for vSphere.
- Integrates with the VMware vCenter Operations Management platform to bring unstructured data (e.g. log files) together with structured data (e.g. metrics and KPIs), offering a significantly enhanced solution for end-to-end operations management.
Public Beta Program Opens to Foster Community Input
To encourage broad product feedback and testing from customers and partners, VMware vCenter Log Insight is now available for download via a public beta program. Participants can provide detailed product feedback, rank features and request new capabilities via the public beta program site at: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcenter/vcenter-log-insight.
