Log Analytics Data

Log Analytics only supports the UTF-8 encoding format.

Event Type: logs

Key (event type identifier): sourceType

These fields are captured by default; you can configure and capture optional data, but these fields are always present:

UI Field Name Description Events Service Internal Name
pickupTimestamp The timestamp when the Java Agent picked up the event and sent it to the Analytics Agent. pickupTimestamp
Message The message body of the log event. message
host IP address or host name where the event was generated. host
source Location of the logs, usually a path or directory such as /tomcat/logs . source
sourceType The kind of log file, such as apache-httpserver-access-log . sourceType
Timestamp Timestamp of the log event. eventTimestamp
Extracted Fields Fields that were extracted using the Controller UI in previous versions appear in the Extracted Fields list. See Collect Log Analytics Data. Varies

You can optionally configure these fields:

Optional Fields Description
nodeName Name of the node where the log event occurred.
tierName Name of the tier where the log event occurred.
appName Application name where the log event occurred.