There is a new VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training available online. The training is 90 min long and gives you a good start for getting your hands on VMware Log Insight product which has been recently updated. The Log Insight 2.0 has been detailed with all its features in my post here.
The LogInsight product is faster than the previous release 1.x (up to 6 times, with up to 80% faster log analysis time), with better charts and offers large scale deployments and clustering where DR scenarios are supported.
VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training modules:
- Log Insight v2.0 Overview: This module provides an overview of Log Insight, including use cases and architecture.
- Log Insight v2.0 Installation and Configuration: This module provides information the installation and configuration of Log Insight, including installation and configuration of the Windows Agent. The native Windows agent (runs as Windows service) has low memory and CPU footprint and collects events from standard or custom Windows event channels, but also collects logs from flat files and directories. For Windows based vCenter servers which stores logs in directories and files (not in Windows events) this can be a very useful solution of collecting logs.
- Log Insight v2.0 Analysis: This module provides information about how to use Log Insight for log analysis, including new tools available in version 2.0.
Log Insight 2.0 can scale out. The details:
- Up to 2Tb of live searchable data per node
- High availability – needs external load balancer to tolerate node failures when in scale out mode. If one of the nodes goes down, then the current traffic can be redirected to existing nodes. Any product supporting syslog protocol with TCP or UDP. (NSX, vCNS, HI5, Riverbed, HA proxy, Internext…)
What's New in vCenter Log Insight 2.0?
- Improved Query Performance ( up to 6x faster processing) and 8x faster than the version 1.5 of Log Insight.
- Windows VMs – a very lightweight Windows agent which collects events from servers and desktops
- Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning – for faster problem resolution
- Tighter Integration with vCAC, NSX and Horizon View
- Integration with vCOPs Suite
- Extensibility with Content Packs – Log insight marketplace, extensibility
- Brocade SAN Content Pack – monitors syslog events from Brocade FC switches, generates alerts
You can register for the training here.
