Has anybody noticed the flaw in LogSource logic?
So LogSources have a couple purposes: They allow you to filter out certain logs. I’m not sure the use case here since the LogSource is explicitly including logs. Maybe the point is to allow you to exclude certain logs that have sensitive data. No masking of data, just ignore the whole log. Not clear if the ignored logs are still in LMLogs or if they get dumped entirely. They allow you to add tags to logs. This is actually pretty cool. You can parse out important info from the log or add device proeprties to the logs. This means you can add device properties to the log that can be displayed as a separate column, or even filtered upon. Each of our devices has a customer property on it. This means i can add that property to each log and search or filter by customer. Device type, ssh.user, SKU, serial number, IP address, the list is literally endless. They allow you to customize which device the logs get mapped to. You can specify that the incoming log should be matched to device via IP address, or hostname, or FQDN, or something else. The documentation on this isn’t exactly clear, but that actually doesn’t matter because… The LogSources apply to logs from devices that match the LogSource’s AppliesTo. Which means the logs need to already be mapped to the device. Then the LogSource can map the logs to a certain device. Do you see the flaw? How is a log going to be processed by a LogSource so it can be properly mapped to a device, if the LogSource won’t process the log unless it matches the AppliesTo, which referencesto the device, to which the logs haven’t yet been mapped? LogSources should not apply to devices. They should apply to Log Pipelines.Solved162Views18likes4Comments