How do I check for and reduce unwanted log usage in my account?
Log Usage Summary
The Log Usage Summary refers to the total space consumed by AppLogs in Site24x7. You can check the:
Total log Usage.
Daily Usage (represented with dates).
Daily Usage by Servers (represented in gigabytes).
Daily Usage by Log Types (represented in gigabytes).
With the data above, you can figure out which log types or servers are consuming more space.
How to check for and reduce unwanted log usage by log types?
Let's consider Windows Event Log as an example since it consumes more space. To identify the events that have consumed the most space, enter the queries below in the AppLogs - Search page (under AppLogs):
To find which type has the highest log count and consumes the most log space:
logtype="Windows Event Logs" groupby type
To find which event ID has the highest log count and consumes the most log space:
logtype="Windows Event Logs" groupby eventid
To find the monitors of the event ID that consumes the most log space:
logtype="Windows Event Logs" groupby eventid,monitor_name
Filtering out the logs
If you find that some unwanted event logs are consuming more space, then you can filter them out. You can filter out Windows event logs on the agent side before uploading logs to Site24x7. You can configure the settings to eliminate the unwanted event IDs so that you can skip them while uploading logs. You can set this field configuration while adding or editing a log type.
Here are the steps to filter out the logs:
2. In the Sample Output section, hover over the field name EventID to find and click the
3. Define the unwanted event IDs under the Filter Log Lines at Source section. To accomplish this, complete both of the actions below:
Select Log Line only if this Field: Select Doesn't Match to filter out unwanted event IDs.
Any of these Values: Enter the event IDs that you don't want to upload.