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Question by Wai C. · Mar 12, 2019 at 03:02 PM · log monitoring

Can I add log files to be monitored even though it is not related to any processes detected?

Right now, seems like even if I want to add log files to be monitored, it would have a logs written by some processes? (which is why I can only configure log in 'process' page, not 'host' page?)

Say, for example, if I want monitor a log which the is /var/log/abcd.txt. How can I achieve this?

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Wai Keat

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Answer by David N. · Mar 12, 2019 at 05:00 PM

Hello Wai,

You can define a custom log event on a log file on a host in the Log Analytics settings. This would allow Dynatrace to alert on certain log patterns that you define that it may find in that log file.

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David Nicholls


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avatar image Antonio V. · Mar 21, 2019 at 12:28 PM 0
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Hi,

Sorry, but you did not answer the question: can we add a not detected log file / any text file to be monitored by dynatrace?

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Antonio V.

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Woops, you are right. Here is information on how to manually specficy a log file to be captured.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/log-analytics#add-log-files-manually

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