Log discovery
NXLog Platform provides a comprehensive log analytics interface, allowing you to search logs collected from your NXLog Agent fleet. You can save and share your log searches for future use, simplifying recurring log analysis tasks. Navigate to Logs > Log search > Log discovery to access the page.
The following sections describe the main features of the Log discovery page.
Search toolbar
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Time zone selector. Set to your local time zone by default.
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Saved searches allows loading or managing your saved searches.
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The Actions menu provides search-related functions, including saving, sharing, and clearing the search conditions.
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The back and forward buttons allow you to navigate through searches from your current session.
Search conditions
| NXLog Platform runs tokenized search with case-insensitive pattern matching. |
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Free-text search that searches in the following columns:
Message,Hostname,SourceModuleNameandSourceModuleType. -
Filter logs by an SQL expression. The arrow button opens the Query builder.
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The time range limit for the search.
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A list of preset relative time frames to set as the date range, such as the last hour or last day.
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The Search button executes the search according to your search conditions.
See Perform a log search for more information.
Data table
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List of event fields to customize the columns shown in the data table.
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The events table displays the search results. You can expand each row to view the complete event details.
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The timeline provides a log count per 5-minute interval, allowing you to focus the data table on a specific time interval.
See Analyzing the log results for more information on exploring the data table.