AppOptics
Introduction
Papertrail can create and update an AppOptics graph displaying the number of log messages matching a search alert.
Setup
Follow the steps in Alerts.
Settings
From AppOptics' Settings page, under the API Tokens tab, generate a new Record Only API token for Papertrail.
For the search alert you are creating, choose:
- Metric name, such as
Exploit attempts
orsystems.http.500
.
The metric name must be URI-safe. Only alphanumeric characters, periods, hyphens, underscores, or colons are allowed.
Your alert details should look something like this:
Metric Attributes
The new metric will only appear in AppOptics after the alert has triggered. After it has started reporting, simply click on the metric name to see the chart.