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01/20/2022 | News release | Distributed by Public on 01/20/2022 10:07

Analyze Syslog messages to improve network performance

Syslogs help you understand infrastructure performance

Performance telemetry helps you understand when a change in performance has occurred. However, understanding why the change happened requires more than performance metrics. For applications, traces coupled with application logs provide those insights, but infrastructure-whether network or compute, physical or virtual-does not produce detailed traces. To understand why a performance metric related to infrastructure changes, you need to produce, store, and analyze Syslogs.

How to configure Syslogs with New Relic

You can send syslogs to New Relic One with a few simple steps. The Instant Observability (I/O) quickstart includes an example dashboard and a guided installation. Alternatively, you may follow along manually using our documentation.

The steps are summarized here:

  1. Start by logging into your New Relic One account or signing up for a free account.
  2. Prepare a Linux host running Docker that can send data outbound via HTTPS and that can receive Syslogs from your internal systems.
  3. Deploy a Docker container that listens for Syslog events and securely forwards them to New Relic.
  4. Configure your internal systems to send your Syslog streams to the Docker host.
  5. Explore your Syslog streams using the Logs UI in the New Relic One platform.