GroundWork, Inc. (www.gwos.com), the leading Unified Monitoring solution
for IT operations management and cloud monitoring, today announced the first
beta program for the new GroundWork LogHub, which integrates one or more log
analysis solutions to GroundWork Monitor Enterprise. Combining unified
monitoring with log analysis provides for faster trouble-shooting, improved root
cause analysis, and more effective IT event correlation and forensic
analysis.
GroundWork
LogHub Beta 1 interfaces with the open source Elasticsearch ELK Stack
(Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash). It allows data search, display and
filtering functions to be displayed natively within the GroundWork Monitor
portal UI for seamless visualisation alongside other monitoring
data.
Future
releases of GroundWork LogHub are likely to include integrations with other
popular log analysis tools, such as AppFirst, Sumo Logic and
Splunk.
Earlier
this year, GroundWork surveyed nearly 400 of its users to identify the
importance of combining log file analysis capabilities to its unified monitoring
solution.
Key
Study findings:
- 37
percent of unified monitoring users are reviewing their IT logs via manual text
search; 33 percent are already using log analysis software
- 96
percent find the ability to combine log field data with other monitoring event
data into a single search tool and/or dashboard important
- 42
percent of users claim they do not have enough time to start analysing their IT
log data; 18% say the cost is too high
These
study findings echoed Gartner's latest report, "Modernize Your Monitoring
Strategy by Combining Unified Monitoring and Log Analytics Tools," on how to
better manage today's complex and dynamic IT environments.
According
to Gartner, "Today's environments are
increasingly converged, abstract and fluid, due to infrastructure advancements
and virtualisation investments, resulting in IT teams needing a larger, broader
and dynamic view of infrastructure health than ever before. Enterprise I&O
teams should combine unified monitoring and log analytics technologies to build
a simpler, faster and cost-effective approach to managing the availability of
today's highly complex and dynamic environments."
By
integrating GroundWork Monitor Enterprise with log analysis tools, GroundWork
LogHub provides:
- Bi-directional
data flow between GroundWork Monitor and log analysis tools
- Correlated
logfile-based data appears within the GroundWork Event Console for alerting,
notification and actions
- Non-logfile
data, such as performance or availability metrics, can be pushed to log analysis
tools to improve search results
- Sending
state changes, downtime schedules and other event data generated within
GroundWork to the remote log analysis tool, improving the accuracy, precision
and coverage of Log Analysis both for event correlation and forensic
analysis
- Using
a distributed log analysis tool for the collection and correlation of log data
improves scalability and capability for monitoring Big Data systems, providing
much improved correlation logic between log data and other monitoring
events
If
you're interested in participating in the GroundWork LogHub Beta, please
register at:http://www.gwos.com/loghubbeta1
To
view the preview video of the GroundWork Logstash integration, see:http://www.gwos.com/2014/groundwork-logstash-integration-beta/
To
get your copy of the Gartner paper "Modernize Your Monitoring Strategy by
Combining Unified Monitoring and Log Analytics Tools," mentioned above,
see:
http://www.gwos.com/gartner-modernize-monitoring