The event database stores information about events that occur in the Connection Server host or group, Horizon Agent, and Horizon Console, and notifies you of the number of events on the dashboard. You can examine the events in detail on the Events page.

Note: Events are listed in the Horizon Console interface for a limited time period. After this time, the events are only available in the historical database tables. You can use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database reporting tools to examine events in the database tables. For more information, see Event Database Tables and Schemas.
Note: If the event database becomes unavailable, VMware Horizon maintains the audit trail of the events that occur during this period of unavailability and saves them to event database once it becomes available. You must restart the event database and Connection Server to view these events in the Horizon Console interface.

In addition to monitoring events in Horizon Console, you can generate VMware Horizon events in Syslog format so that the event data can be accessible to analytics software. See "Configure Event Logging to File or Syslog Server" and "Generating Horizon Event Log Messages in Syslog Format Using the ‑I Option," in the Horizon Installation document.

If you configure an event database for multiple Connection Servers, Horizon Console displays the events for all Connection Servers on the Events page. Horizon Console filters events based on the tasks that you perform and displays these events on relevant pages such as the Desktop Pools or Application Pools pages.

Prerequisites

Create and configure the event database as described in the Horizon Installation document.

Procedure

  1. In Horizon Console, select Monitor > Events.
  2. (Optional) On the Events page, you can select the time range of the events, filter the events, and sort the listed events by one or more of the columns.

What to do next

In Horizon Console, navigate to a desktop or application pool, virtual machine, or a user or group and click the Events tab to view specific events.