Widget Use Cases

You can use widgets to monitor various aspects of application health. To learn how to build a Screen to monitor your web application, see Use Screens and Widgets to Monitor Log Data.

This article lists some other ways you can use Widgets.

Count All Log Lines for the Past Day

1. Create a Count widget.
2. Set the duration to Last 1 Day.
3. Optionally set the host and field value if you want to filter the log lines.

Monitor Error Logs

There are multiple ways to measure error logs.

Time Shifted Graph

Compare errors over a period.

1. Create a Time Shifted widget.
2. Set field to level.
3. Select Advanced filtering and enter the query level:(warn OR error).
4. Set the duration to Last 1 Week.

Count

See the number of errors using a filter.

1. Create a Count widget.
2. Select Advanced filtering and enter the query level:(warn OR error).
3. Set the Duration to Last 1 Week.
4. To get a view of errors over time, you can create the widget again and choose a different duration.

Table

Use a table to see error levels.

1. Create a Table widget.

2. Under Data:

   1. Set Group by to level.
   2. Set Field to All Lines.

3. Set Duration to Last 1 Week.

4. Under Appearance:

   1. Set Left Column Label to Level.
   2. Set Right Column Label to Counts.

See Log Lines by App

1. Create a Table widget.

2. Under Data:

   1. Group by app.
   2. Set Field to host.
   3. Optionally set the field value.

3. Set the Duration.

4. Under Appearance:

   1. Set Left Column Label to App.
   2. Set Right Column Label to Counts.

Authentication Attempts

1. Create a Count widget.

2. Under Data:

   1. Set Field to host.
   2. Set Field value to the host you want to monitor.
   3. Click Advanced Monitoring and add authentication

3. Set the Duration to Last 1 Day.