Log data alerting

Dyantrace Log Monitoring allows you to define patterns, events, and custom log metrics to receive proactive notifications.

Log metrics

You can create a metric based on your monitored log data. With such a metric, you can have Dynatrace continuously scan your monitored log data and display a chart of that metric on your dashboard so that any pattern changes that occur in your custom metric will be clearly visible.

Check out how to use a log metric to save its chart to a dashboard, and then create an alert.

• See Example of creating an alert based on log metric

Log events

When Dynatrace ingests log data, it applies the query specified in the log event definition. Every matched occurrence triggers a log event that can be configured to individually create a problem for each triggered log event or can be merged into one problem.

Check out how to create a log event based on a Log Monitoring query to filter specific log content and properties from the ingested log data.

• See Example of creating a log event based on ingested log data