Managing Insight Packs
Use Insight Packs to help you to annotate and index specific log file records.
Before you can use any of the Insight Packs ,
you must install and configure the Insight Packs.
You can:
- Create your own custom Insight Packs.
- Use the Insight Packs that are available out of the box.
- Download additional Insight Packs.
The Insight Pack defines:
- The type of data that is to be consumed.
- How data is annotated. The data is annotated to highlight relevant information.
- How the annotated data is indexed. The indexing process allows you to manipulate search results for better problem determination and diagnostics.
- How to render the data in a chart.
Out of the box Insight Packs
The following Insight Packs are now installed with the product:
- WASInsightPack
- The WebSphere Application Server Insight Pack includes support for ingesting and performing metadata searches against WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8 log files. Updates to WAS index configuration will improve indexing performance. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- WASAppInsightPack
- The Websphere Application Server (WAS) Applications Insight Pack provides troubleshooting dashboards for WebSphere Application Server Logs. A new authentication mechanism eliminates the need to specify userid and password in the application script. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- DB2InsightPack
- The DB2 Insight Pack includes support for ingesting and performing metadata searches against DB2 version 9.7 and 10.1 db2diag.log files. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- DB2AppInsightPack
- The DB2 Applications Insight Pack provides troubleshooting dashboards for DB2 Logs. A new authentication mechanism eliminates the need to specify userid and password in the application script. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- Syslog Insight Pack
- The Syslog Insight Pack includes support for ingesting and performing metadata searches against syslog data logging. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- WebAccessLogInsightPack
- The Web Access Logs Insight Pack provides the capability to ingest and perform metadata searches against Web Access Logs such as Apache IHS, JBoss, Apache Tomcat. The pack now includes a Web Health Check Dashboard example that provides summaries of key metrics.
- WindowsOSEventsInsightPack
- You can use the Windows OS Event Insight pack and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent to load and search Windows OS events. New support for data collection using logstash provides an alternative to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
- JavacoreInsightPack
- The Java™ Core Insight Pack provides the capability to ingest and search metadata that originates in Java Core files in IBM® Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. The field logsourceHostname has been changed to datasourceHostname.
- GAInsightPack
- The Generic Annotation Insight Pack is not specific to any particular log data type. It can be used to analyze log files for which a log-specific Insight Pack is not available
Additional Insight Packs
The following Insight Packs are
available for download:
- IBM MB Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search IBM Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus log files.
- IBM MQ Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search IBM MQ log files.
- Ticket Analytics Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search the log files generated by one of the three ticketing solutions.
- IBM PureApp Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search log files generated by IBM PureApp.
- IBM Business Process Manager Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search log files generated by IBM Business Process Manager.
- IBM DataPower Insight Pack
- Use this Insight Pack to search log files generated by IBM DataPower applications.