Microsoft DNS Insight Pack

Overview

The Microsoft DNS Insight Pack gives customers support to ingest data from various Microsoft DNS event logs into IBM Operations Analytics – Log Analysis. They can then use a rich set of analytical dashboards to visualize metadata and derived metrics from log content, along with performing additional queries on the content.

The dynamic dashboards provided with the Microsoft DNS Insight Pack help in visualizing the data which is available through Microsoft DNS logs. You can view the dashboards at a later time from the Search Dashboards pane.

Microsoft DNS Event Level Dashboard

This dashboard displays event log-level distribution charts for the configured time period. The event logs are filtered to display events from the Windows event logs in the Microsoft DNS environment that are specific to the Microsoft DNS providers.

Microsoft DNS Events Dashboard

This dashboard displays event log-level distribution charts for the configured time period. The event logs are filtered to display events from the Windows event logs in the Microsoft DNS environment that are specific to the Microsoft DNS providers.

Additional information

The Insight Pack includes support for ingesting and performing metadata searches against the Microsoft DNS Environment Event Log file records.

DNS Server Event Log: DNS Server

Notes:

• Microsoft DNS 2012 R2 generates additional Audit and Analytic Event logs. LFA and Logstash does not support ingestion of these additional logs.
• Windows OS Events Insight Pack processes Event logs. For more information, see Windows OS Events Insight Pack documentation.

Training Information

Review the following video for information on using and setting up the Insight Pack.

Overview presentation used in the training video.

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IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis Insight Packs for Infrastructure-Standard Install License.