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What’s New in VMware® vRealize™ Log Insight™ 3.3

Bill RothProduct Marketing Manager

Karl FultzTechnical Marketing Manager

05/01/2023

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Automation

Service CatalogGovernance

Release Automation

Operations

Service HealthCapacity Optimization

Configuration Standards

IT Business

Cost TransparencyBenchmarkingService Quality

VMware Cloud Management

Compute

Physical Hardware

Private Clouds

Public Clouds

Hybrid CloudVMware &

vCloud Datacenter Partners

Virtualized InfrastructureAbstract & Pool

Compute Abstraction = Server Virtualization

Storage

Storage Abstraction = Software-Defined

Storage

Network

Network Abstraction = Virtual Networking

Applications Modern SaaSTraditional

The Control Plane for the Software-Defined Data Center and the Hybrid Cloud

Today’s Reality in Operations Management

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Monitoring Data Overload Alert Storms

Finger Pointing

DBA

VI Storage

Over-provisioning

Silo-ed Operations Management with no single solution

Downtime and Performance Degradation

• Unified operations solution across virtual, physical, storage, network and apps

• Quality of service

• Guided remediation with accelerated root cause analysis

Key Challenges For Customers

Cost Cutting and Reduced Budgets

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• Optimal utilization of existing IT assets

• Greater operational efficiency

What do Customers Need?

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What Could You Do If You Had Insight?

Solve problems faster— from days to hoursvRealize™

Log Insight™

Find problems you didn’t know you had

Get actionable insight into what it means

Logs as Last Mile to Root Cause Analysis

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SCSI ErrorsNFS Errors

vMotion FailuresHost DisconnectsDropped Packets

Failed TasksSlow Host SyncsSlow DB Queries

vRealize Log Insight 3.3

• Log Insight for vCenter Edition

• Integrated Load Balancer Capabilities• Multiple VIPs with Associated Tags

• Enhanced vSphere Integration

• Alert Option – Webhooks

• UI Enhancements• View Chart Data as Table

• Authentication and Simple Query APIs

• LTSV, Regex, and Syslog Agent Parsers

• IPv6 Support

• Additional Features• Log Importer• Agent Configuration – Preview

vRealize Log Insight 3.3

What’s New

vRealize Log Insight for vCenter

vRealize Log InsightAvailable with vCenter Server Standard

Intelligent Log Analytics for vCenter• Free 25-OSI Log Insight pack per vCenter Benefits of vRealize Log Insight for vCenter• Powerful big data log management built for vSphere• Includes all VMware Content Packs • Extensive Log Management – Captures log data from

physical servers, network and storage devices, OSs, applications, and more

• Intuitive on-the-fly keyword filtering and custom dashboards

• Integration with vRealize Operations – Inventory integration, 2-way Alert Visualization

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The best real-time management for SDDC

Security

App

Operating System

vSphere

System Statistics

Applications Other IT

App

Logs

Upgrade to Full vRealize Log Insight for:

• Extensibility – 3rd Party and Custom Content Packs such as Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, NetApp (29+ available)

• Scalability – Cluster Support and Event Forwarding• High availability, Archiving and SSL

Integrated Load Balancer – Multiple VIP

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Define multiple VIPs

with ILBAssociate tags with each VIP. Useful for RBAC and Content

Packs

ILB Election process is unchanged

vSphere Integration Enhancements

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Add tags for vCenter and ESXi events. RBAC use case

Automatically add unconfigured

Hosts

Choose ILB VIP

Alert Enhancement - Webhooks

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Send alerts using HTTP

POST

Point to external URLs, i.e. vRO,

SocialCast, ServiceNow

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View Chart Data as a Table

Build data visualizations using a table

Choose Table to change the visualization•  

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Authentication API• Use-case: Required to leverage the query API (discussed next)

Request ResponseGET /api/v1/sessions HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:9543Accept: application/json

HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 {  "userId": ”<user_guid>",  "ttl": <int>}

POST /api/v1/sessions HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:9543Accept: application/jsonContent-Type: application/json { ”provider”: “<Local|ActiveDirectory>”,  "username": ”<username>",  "password": ”<password>"}

HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 {  "userId": ”<user_guid>",  "sessionId": ”<session_id>",  "ttl": <int>}

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Simple Query API• Use-case: Used to programmatically query for data in Log Insight

Request ResponseGET /api/v1/events/timestamp/%3E10 HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:9543Accept: application/jsonAuthorization: Bearer <session_id>

HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 { "complete": true, "events": [ { "fields": [ { "content": "172.16.127.1", "name": "hostname" }, { "content": "v4_e0cb4506", "name": "event_type" }, { "content": "172.16.127.1", "name": "source" } ], "text": "this is a test event", "timestamp": 1449771888082 } ] }

GET /api/v1/aggregated-events/<value> HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:9543Accept: application/jsonContent-Type: application/jsonAuthorization: Bearer <session_id> 

HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 { "complete": true, "events": [ { …

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New Client-Side Agent Parsers

• Labeled Tab-Separated Values (LTSV) format is a variant of Tab-Separated Values (TSV)

• Syslog parser automatically parses timestamp from the beginning of the log and extracts application name as filed with name "appname".

• Regex based on boost::regex 

LTSV Syslog Regex

[filelog|simple_logs]directory=/var/loginclude=*parser=ltsv

[filelog|simple_logs]directory=/var/loginclude=*parser=syslog

[filelog|simple_logs]directory=/var/loginclude=*parser=regex_parser

[parser|regex_parser]base_parser=regexformat=(?<tag1>\d{4})[-](?<tag2>\d{4})[-](?<tag3>\d{4})

Additional Features• Copytruncate Support

– Creates a copy of a log file then truncates the original log file.

• Additional OVF options– DNS searchpath and DNS domain– Allows hostname only name resolution.

• New Importer Utility – Windows or Linux command-line tool used for importing offline or archived

logs to the Log Insight server.

• Agent support for Windows 10• Hybrid License• Agent Configuration Builder (Tech Preview)

– Streamlines the build and validation of agent configurations.

• Virtual Appliance IPv6 support (Tech Preview)

Learn More

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