The following topics provide an overview of how to connect to Logger, and explores Logger's dashboards. Logger includes standard dashboards that display the real-time and historical status of receivers and forwarders as well as storage, CPU, and disk usage statistics. You can create your own dashboards for an all-in-one view of Logger information that is of interest to you.
Dashboards are an all-in-one view of the Logger information of interest to you. You can select and view any of several out-of-box dashboards or create and display your own custom dashboard.
Each Logger dashboard contains one or more panels of these types:
Search Results: Search Results panels display events that match the query associated with the panel.
Monitor: Monitor panels display the real-time and historical status of various Logger components such as receivers, forwarders, storage, CPU, and disk.
Summary: Summary panels display summarized event information about your Logger—the number of events received of a specific resource or field type, and the time stamp of the last event received for that resource or field type.