Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Logging and Logging Analytics Strategy

Gain visibility into your organization's cloud operations by implementing a comprehensive logging and analysis system.

As organizations adopt cloud services, IT operations and DevOps practitioners often struggle to gain insight into how resources are performing and being accessed. Traditionally, IT organizations lack standardized and centralized logging solutions, and every component of the IT stack has its own logging and analysis mechanism. Use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging and Logging Analytics services to access, monitor, and analyze logs for your cloud resources.

Logging

Logging is a highly scalable and fully managed single pane of glass for all the logs in your tenancy. Logging provides access to logs from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources. These logs include critical diagnostic information that describes how resources are performing and being accessed.

Use Logging to enable, manage, and search the following types of logs:

  • Audit Logs: Logs related to events emitted by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit service.
  • Service Logs: Emitted by OCI native services, such as API Gateway, Events, OCI Functions, Load Balancing, Object Storage, and VCN Flow Logs.
  • Custom Logs: Logs that contain diagnostic information from custom applications, other cloud providers, or an on-premises environment. Custom logs can be ingested through the API, or by configuring the Unified Monitoring Agent.

Logs are indexed in the system, and searchable through the Console, API, and CLI. OCI logs are encrypted in-flight (that is, while they are in the process of being ingested), at disk level after the logs are in the system, when they are archived, and while in storage.

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Logging Analytics

Logging Analytics is a cloud solution in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that lets you index, enrich, aggregate, explore, search, analyze, correlate, visualize and monitor all log data from your applications and system infrastructure.

To get started with Logging Analytics, see Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging Analytics Quick Start Guide. The Logging Analytics videos are another helpful resource.

For steps to use hundreds of Oracle-defined sources and parsers, or to create your own custom source or parser, see Logging Analytics Administration Guide.

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