VMware has released a new automated log management and analytics tool, VMware vCenter Log Insight.
VMware envisions the product enabling IT to gain real-time insights from log data generated by applications, hardware and virtualised infrastructure.
"Dynamic virtual and cloud environments generate vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, requiring analytics for real-time intelligence and visibility across IT infrastructure and applications," says Chris Norton, senior regional director southern Africa at VMware.
"With VMware vCenter Log Insight, we're extending our analytics-based approach to provide timely and rich insight of machine-generated data to IT administrators and operations teams. By integrating VMware vCenter Log Insight with the VMware vCenter Operations, we are enabling our customers to take advantage of our solution that simplifies troubleshooting in dynamic virtual and cloud environments," he adds.
Norton says the use of automated log analytics will minimise troubleshooting times, improve operational efficiency, reduce IT costs, and minimise troubleshooting times. Although machine-generated log data can be a valuable source of data that IT can utilise to identify and troubleshoot problems, the high volume of this data creates a challenge for IT when it comes to managing the logs for actual insight.
According to Norton, VMware vCentre Log Insight manages log data automatically by using log aggregation, analytics, and search, enabling system monitoring, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
The software, which is priced on a scalable model per operating system instance, is currently available for download via a public beta programme, which allows participants to provide detailed product feedback and request new capabilities. The programme, which opened in mid-June, will run for an extended period of time, and the full product is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2013.
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