: Log Collector Health Monitoring on Panorama
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Log Collector Health Monitoring on Panorama

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Log Collector Health Monitoring on Panorama

Monitor the managed Log Collector health status from the Panorama™ management server.
The Panorama management server now supports centralized visibility into the managed Log Collector health status. The Log Collector health status is based on the health status of vital Log Collector processes and you can view both the overall health status and the health status of each log collection process. You can monitor the status of these processes to help identify and resolve issues impacting log collection
The ability to monitor your Log Collector health status in near-real time allows you to quickly identify and troubleshoot log forwarding and connectivity issues between your managed firewalls and Log Collectors. For example, you have 1,000 managed firewalls forwarding logs to different Log Collectors based on geographical location. Some of your managed firewalls begin to experiencing unexplained log forwarding issues based. In this scenario, you can review your Log Collector health status to quickly identify which Log Collectors are experiencing degraded health and why.
  1. Log in to the Panorama web inteface.
  2. Select PanoramaManaged Collectors and navigate to the Health column.
  3. Review the overall health status of the Log Collector.
    A green circle (
    ) indicates that the Log Collector is healthy and red circle (
    ) indicates degraded health.
  4. View the Health Status details to view the health status of each log collection process.
    The Health Status displays four different log collector processes vital to log forwarding and ingestion; logd, vldmgr, vlds, and es. A green circle (
    ) indicates that the log collection process is healthy and red circle (
    ) indicates degraded health.