You can search for log events that contain a complete keyword. Keywords contain alpha-numeric, hyphen, and underscore characters.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs web user interface as a user associated with the User role, or a role that has the relevant permissions. For more information, see Create and Modify Roles in Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs. The URL format of the web user interface is https://operations_for_logs-host, where operations_for_logs-host is the IP address or host name of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance.

Procedure

  1. Expand the main menu and click Explore Logs.
  2. In the search text box, type the complete keyword that you want to search for in the log events, and click the Search button.

Results

Log events that contain the specified complete keyword appear in the list.

The string that you searched for is highlighted in yellow.

What to do next

You can save the current query to load it at a later stage.