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Have you ever caught yourself thinking that you don’t actually know what you should be searching for when you are on the Search tab of the nice and slick OnDemand Log Management UI?

Have you ever questioned yourself why you have to check for critical events by yourself instead of having the product do that for your and only interfere with your other business when your attention is really required?

I did and so did quite a few of you according to the feedback you’ve been generously sharing with this. So I’m pleased to tell you that you’ve been heard!

During last couple of weeks we made a couple of exiting feature updates for you.

Now every time you log into the event log management service you can start with any of the pre-defined searches which we put for all service users or you happened to craft by yourself some time ago and found helpful enough for ongoing use.  You can customize any of the pre-defined searches down the road by adding column filters, adjusting the search criteria and changing the set of fields being displayed in the results view. Finally found a needle in the haystack and want to save the time you spent on building the resulting query? Just add your search to the favorites and start with it next time.

Check out a set of the canned searches we provide for you today and tell us what’s missing!

Favorite searches is not just a shortcut to start an investigation. Any saved search can now be run in real time against every new event that is collected from your entire network. All events matching the search criteria that you defined in your alert-enabled searches will be immediately sent to the specified email address. Don’t want to be spammed by notifications? Subscribe do hourly or daily digests with a full list of critical events.

See the nice and concise video on the Dmitry’s blog that  clearly shows how easy setting up alerts really is

So, now OnDemand Log Management can be used in entirely unattended mode. If you don’t have much time to do daily analysis right in the service UI then just set up alerts and get back to your business – the service will take care of all the important things happening in your network.

It’s nice to see how the cloud based event log management service is becoming a neat operation tool. Indeed alert enabled searches set you up for monitoring of security incidents and operational issues.  And the same searches can be later used to find the root cause of the issue by looking up events that preceded it.

See another video that shows how OnDemand Log Management can help you track and investigate one of the most distracting operational issues these days – service account lockouts.

Stay tuned.