Welcome to Mezmo

Welcome New Mezmozians!

Welcome to Mezmo! Mezmo’s log management platform lets you collect, monitor, parse, live tail, graph, and analyze logs with clear visualizations and smart alerting all within minutes.

In this quick start guide, we will walk you through the steps to get you managing and analyzing logs in minutes!

Set up Your Account and Create an Organization

1. Click Sign Up on the Mezmo website. You will be automatically enrolled into a 30 day free trial.
2. Your organization is an independent workspace where you can access and configure your logs, add members, change billing plan, and manage other aspects of your account. Once you create an organization, you will be given an auto-generated ingestion key, which you can use to send in logs. You can find more detail about setting up an organization in the Mezmo Organization Management guide and in the topic Mezmo Organization Basics.

Add A Log Source

1. Next, choose the ingestion logging source. Mezmo offers a variety of Mezmo Log Ingestion Methods including the Mezmo Logging Agent and the Log Analysis APIAPI. You can install the Mezmo Agent on Kubernetes, Openshift, Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and you can take a look at our source code on GitHub.
2. Each organization can have multiple ingestion sources. To add an ingestion source, log in to the Mezmo Web App.
3. In the left-hand navigation of the Web App, just below your user profile avatar, click Add Log Sources.
4. Select the log source you want to use, and follow the setup instructions. Note that your ingestion key is automatically added to the code examples.

You can find more information about ingestion sources in the topic Mezmo Log Ingestion Integrations

Parse Logs

As your logs are ingested into Mezmo, they are automatically parsed into components that are instantly viewable and actionable. You can also create custom parsing templates.

Search Your Logs

Mezmo Log Search provides advanced search operators and syntax to find critical data in your logs, as well as the ability to view log data by timeline.

Create Views and Alerts

Once you've searched your logs, you can save it as a view.. A view is like a bookmark for your log lines, so you can easily save them and review them as many times as you want. You can also add alerts to views to notify you and your team when certain conditions are met. Mezmo has for many popular platforms, including DataDog, Slack, and PagerDuty.

Set Up Exclusion Rules and Spike Protection

Mezmo provides several cost control features to protect against unexpected spikes in log data volume, including:

Exclusion Rules that help you filter out log data that you don’t need to store, which can help you manage storage costs and focus your analysis on data that contains meaningful information.

Usage Quotas allow you to set hard and soft limits on ingestion, and set additional Exclusion Rules to ensure that you aren’t going over budget while still getting the log data you need.

Index Rate Alerts use historical trends to notify you when there are unexpected volume-based spikes in log data, and provides insights into where they are happening.

Set Up Archiving

Mezmo stores your log data for a certain period of time, based on which plan you are on (the free trial plan stores logs for 14 days). Enabling Archiving ensures that once the retention period has concluded, your log data will be exported to external storage (for example, S3) for continued access. Additionally, enabling Archiving allows you to easily bring log data back into the Mezmo UI via our Data Restoration feature.

Create Boards and Graphs

Boards are similar to Views, but instead of containing log line data, contain graphs that present metrics about your log data. Graphs are especially useful for application monitoring and data visualization, and provide their own controls for filtering and refining log data.

Change Plan

Once your 30 day trial is over, you can still use Mezmo on a free plan but your logs will no longer be retained. If you would like to retain your logs for 7, 14, or 30+ days, you can go to Settings > Billing > Overview to select one of our paid plans. Compare all our pay-per-usage pricing model here.

Now that you've followed these steps to set up Mezmo and start working with your logs, you're ready to start mining your logs for information and insights to accelerate your operational success!