Introduction

VMware have created Log Insight to help customers solve problems faster, Find Problems you didn’t know you had and get actionable insight into what the messages mean.

This series of articles are going to cover the deployment of VMware’s Log Insight Manager infrastructure, configuration of Load Balancing using “KEMP” and configuring VMware’s ESXI Hosts to Send logs to Log Insight.

VMware vCenter Log Insight is a analytics product released last year. Log Insight delivers automated management through analytics, aggregation, and search.

Technical Overview:

Analyse

Log Insight Can analyse any unstructured time-series data, Configuration etc.
It automatically identifies structures in the data
No Need for Databases

Scale

Central, Scale-out store for all collected logs, SQL is not used.
Configurable retention and archiving
Maintenance free

Best for vSphere

Queries, alerts, fields, charts in the vSphere Content pack

Scale Out Architecture

The new 2.0 version of Log Insight brings the following enhancements and features:

8x faster data collection
2TB of live data (searchable) per node
High Availability removing a single point of failure for Log ingestion
Load balancing Log Insight using a third party Load Balancer like “KEMP”
Single User interface for a central management interface
Windows OS Support

Log Insight supports ingestion and receipt of Syslog messages that are sent over UDP, TCP, TCP with SSL encryption and via API. We will cover this in more detail later on in the series.

for more information on the features please see the following link:

https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2014/05/announcing-vcenter-log-insight-2-0-scalable-fast-log-management-that-does-windows.html?utm_source=loginsightvmware.com