Overview

At all times, data enters Data is constantly entering your system's IT infrastructure from various sources. This data is of all types , including – performance data and statistics, traps and alerts, log files, configurations, scripts and messages, and comes and arrives from various sources – your logs, folders, applications, network devices, database tables, and servers.

XpoLog indexes in real time all this data entering your system's IT infrastructure from various sources, and structures and normalizes all this data – both raw and rich, into a single database of a uniform format.

XpoLog provides a search engine – XpoSearch, which enables you to conduct a search through this immense amount of data for anything that you like. This is done from Using the single XpoSearch search console, from which you interface, you can search all the logs in XpoLog Center (applications, servers, network devices, database tables, and more). 

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Initial Search

In the initial search, you enter into the search query a string of simple criteria for searching user enters a search query of simple criteria, and the search is executed on all the event data. In this simple search, you can  the user can search the event data for a simple term or more than one term, perform a Boolean search, a search with wildcards, or a comparison search.

The execution of the search query returns a list of all matching events from all relevant logs (latest on top). In addition, XpoSearch returns a graphical view of the distribution of the matching events over time and per data source.

You can refine this simple search This simple search can be refined to minimize search results, by doing either or both of the following:

•  Performing Performing a Filtered Search - – filtering the resulting events according to the source of the event – logs, files, applications, or servers.
• Performing a Refined Search -  – adding one of the event data fields , discovered during the simple search , to the search criteria of the simple search

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