Using the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer

Using the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer provides information about installing and running the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer.

The VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer is a command-line utility used to import offline logs of historical data from local machines to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs server.

Use the Importer when you want to import logs that were collected in the past. You can import support bundles and archived logs and analyze logs from support bundles gathered from VMware Aria Operations for Logs or any VMware product.

VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer includes the following features and capabilities.

• VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer sends data over the ingestion API.
• It supports file log collection, including recursive directory collection.
• The Importer can read data from zip, tar, bzip, bzip2, or gz archive files. 7-Zip is not supported.
• You can stipulate that data be read recursively from a nested archive, such as a nested ZIP file, or from a directory within an archive.