Log Monitoring Overview

Before diving into Log Monitoring features, explore these essential topics to help you get started:

These resources help you install and configure the Atatus Infrastructure Agent, which is required to collect and forward logs.

What is Atatus Log Monitoring?

Atatus Log Monitoring enables you to collect, centralize, search, and analyze log data across your entire infrastructure. Logs generated by applications, servers, containers, databases, and network devices are gathered in one place to help teams quickly detect, investigate, and resolve issues.

Modern distributed systems can produce thousands of log events every minute. Without centralized monitoring, identifying the root cause of problems becomes difficult. Atatus simplifies this process by providing a scalable log management platform that allows you to:

Collect logs from multiple infrastructure sources
Search and filter log events quickly
Analyze patterns and anomalies
Correlate logs with metrics and distributed traces

Setup

To start monitoring logs, you must first install the Atatus Infrastructure Agent. The agent automatically handles log capture and processing, so you don't need to manually copy or export your log files.

Log collection is disabled by default. To enable it, open your agent configuration file at /etc/atatus-infra-agent/atatus.yml and set the logs_enabled flag to true.

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# /etc/atatus-infra-agent/atatus.yml

# General
license_key: "lic_infra_testkey"

# Sets the internal logging level for the agent. (Default: info)
# Available log levels: error, warning, info, verbose
log_level: warning

# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each transaction published.
# eg: ["aws-eu", "web-tier"]
tags: []

# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the output.
#customData:
#  env: production

# Enable log monitoring
logs_enabled: false

After updating the configuration, ensure you restart the Atatus Infrastructure Agent for the changes to take effect.

Integrations

Atatus integrates seamlessly with a wide range of robust services. Explore specific configuration guides below:

Log Configuration

Once logs are being collected, you can customize how they are processed and organized using Atatus configuration features.

Next Steps

After enabling log monitoring, explore additional capabilities within Atatus:

Search and filter logs in the Log Explorer
Correlate logs with APM traces and infrastructure metrics
Detect recurring log patterns
Identify performance issues and operational anomalies