Health Events

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Health events allow you to keep track of the health of your Collectors, Sources, and Ingest Budgets. You can use them to find and investigate common errors and warnings that are known to cause collection issues. 

This framework includes the following:

• Health event logs indexed in the Audit Event Index.
• A health events table on the Alerts page.
• A health status column on the Collection page.

Health events are sent from Installed Collectors on version 19.308-2 and later.

Alerts

Alerts for specific health events are easy to create in the Health Events Table. The details pane of an event provides a Create Scheduled Search button to automatically generate the required query.

Health events

Health events are created when an issue is detected with a Collector or Source. Events are indexed and searchable in a separate partition named sumologic_system_events in the Audit Event Index. For details on what information is available in a health event, see the common parameters table.

The Audit Event Index lists all of the possible Health Events.

Health events table

The health events table allows you to easily view and investigate problems getting your data to Sumo.

On the health events table, you can search, filter, and sort incidents by key aspects like severity, resource name, event name, resource type, and opened since date.

The health events table is at Manage Data > Monitoring > Health Events.

Click on a row to view the details of a health event.

Click the Create Scheduled Search button on the details pane to get alerts for specific health events. The unique identifier of the resource, such as the Source or Collector, is used in the query. See Schedule a Search for details.

Under the More Actions menu you can select:

• Event History to run a search against the sumologic_system_events partition to view all of the related event logs.
• View Object to view the Collector or Source in the Collection page related to the event.

Health events severity

Events are categorized by two severity levels, warning and error. The severity column has color-coded error and warning events so you can quickly determine the severity of a given issue.

• A warning indicates the Collector or Source has a configuration issue or is operating in a degraded state.
• An error indicates the Collector or Source is unable to collect data as expected.

Common parameters

Each health event log has common keys that categorize it to a product area and provide details of the event. The following table shows the common parameters in the order that they are found in health event logs.

Parameter	Description	Data Type
status	Either Healthy or Unhealthy based on the event.	String
details	The details of the event include the type as trackerId, the name of the event, and a description.	JSON object of Strings
eventType	Health events have a value of Health-Change.	String
severityLevel	Either Error or Warning based on the event.	String
accountId	The unique identifier of the organization.	String
eventId	The unique identifier of the event.	String
eventName	The name of the event.	String
eventTime	The event timestamp in ISO 8601 format.	String
eventFormatVersion	The event log format version.	String
operator	Information on who did the operation. If it's missing, the Sumo service was the operator.	JSON object of Strings
subsystem	The product area of the event.	String
resourceIdentity	This includes any unique identifiers, names, and the type of the object associated with the event.	JSON object of Strings

Health event log example

{
    "status": "UnHealthy",
    "details": {
        "trackerId": "FileCollectionBroken",
        "name": "Failed to find the file path",
        "description": "File collection is not working as expected because of invalid path."
    },
    "eventType": "Health-Change",
    "severityLevel": "Error",
    "accountId": "0000000000000131",
    "eventId": "39205436-7e16-4e2f-9f95-ef750e055d79",
    "eventName": "TrackerUnHealthy",
    "eventTime": "2020-01-20T16:10:27.085Z",
    "eventFormatVersion": "1.0",
    "subsystem": "Collection",
    "resourceIdentity": {
        "collectorId": "000000000641A117",
        "collectorName": "Sumo Logic",
        "id": "000000000679181F",
        "name": "ops_zookeeper",
        "type": "SourceResource"
    }
}

Search health events

To search all health events run a query against the internal partition named sumologic_system_events. For example,

_index=sumologic_system_events "Health-Change"

tip

Create a scheduled search to get alerts for specific health events.

Metadata assignment

Creating a query that defines built-in metadata field values in the scope can help improve search performance and limit results to what you're investigating. Metadata fields are assigned to health event logs as follows:

Metadata Field	Assignment Description
_sourceCategory	Value of the common parameter, subsystem.
_sourceName	Value of the common parameter, eventName.
_sourceHost	The remote IP address of the host that made the request. If not available the value will be no_sourceHost.

Collection page

A Health column on the Collection page shows color-coded healthy, error, and warning states for Collectors and Sources so you can quickly determine the health of your Collectors and Sources.

The status column now shows the status of Sources manually paused by users.

• Hover your mouse over a Collector or Source to view a tooltip that provides the number of health events detected on the Collector or Source.

  

• Click on the Health status in a row to view a pop-up displaying a list of related events.