Logs

Question 1

Maximum of log data you can examine?

Answer 1

500MB

Question 2

You can analyze on-demand logs from which time period?

Answer 2

last 7 days

Question 3

Retain period for logs saved on Dynatrace server?

Answer 3

5 to 90 days

Question 4

The 3 types of logs that can be monitored are?

Answer 4

1. windows format event logs
2. plain-text log
3. JSON files

Question 5

Which types of Logs are auto-discovered?

Answer 5

1. Process logs

2. operating system logs

Question 6

5 advantages of monitoring and storing files on the Dyntrace server?

Answer 6

1. Longer retention period
2. create alerts based on text pattern occurrences
3. bookmark search queries
4. parse columns and examine the top N occurrences
5. Access metrics via Log monitoring API

Question 7

For which Dyntrace entities are logs available?

Answer 7

1. Process groups
2. Processes
3. Hosts

Question 8

What are the disadvantages of analyzing on-demand logs?

Answer 8

1. Shorter retention period (7 days)

2. One log at a time

Question 9

Log autodiscovery frequency

Answer 9

60 sec

Question 10

Log autodiscovery locations

Answer 10

1. Windows System log
2. Windows Security log
3. Windows Application log
4. var/log/syslog
5. var/log/messages

Question 11

6 Log autodiscovery requirements

Answer 11

1. Log must be opened by an important process
2. Log must exist longer than 1 minute
3. Log must contain supported timestamp
4. Log must have at least 0.5 KB in size
5. Log must have been updated in the last 7 days
6. Log must be in log folder/logs folder or a subfolder of it

Question 12

When is a link for log analysis provided on a problem ticket?

Answer 12

When Dynatrace detects that the root cause for that problem is a process.

Question 13

For what are Log custom metrics used?

Answer 13

1. create a custom chart
2. create a custom event for alerting
3. get data points via API

Question 14

Via which API can you configure existing custom Log metrics?

Answer 14

Dynatrace Configuration API

Question 15

How to enable Log monitoring?

Answer 15

Settings ->Monitoring -> Monitored technologies

Question 16

What do Dynatrace admins need to do in order for other users to have access to logs?

Answer 16

Give them “View logs” permission

Question 17

How to disable monitoring for a particular host?

Answer 17

during installation, there is a switch for “Enable access to app log files” which will set the –set-app-log-content-access to either false or true

Question 18

How to add log files manually

Answer 18

Process group/Process -> Settings -> Log monitoring -> Add new log for monitoring

Question 19

How to mask sensitive data in logs?

Answer 19

add a masking rule to ruxitagentloganalytics.conf

Question 20

What are the 3 scopes of MaskingRules

Answer 20

1. Process group
2. file or file-group
3. Combination of the 2

Question 21

3 Aging mechanism rules for OneAgent logs

Answer 21

1. The total directory size is above 1 GB
2. Any file in this directory is older than 14 days
3. The directory contains more than 1000 files