diff --git a/integrations/logs/metadata.yaml b/integrations/logs/metadata.yaml index 6338999623..42c3131713 100644 --- a/integrations/logs/metadata.yaml +++ b/integrations/logs/metadata.yaml @@ -36,3 +36,40 @@ prerequisites: description: | - A Netdata Cloud account +- id: "windows-event-logs" + meta: + name: "Windows Event Logs" + link: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md" + categories: + - logs + - data-collection.windows-systems + icon_filename: "windows.svg" + keywords: + - windows + - windows events + - logs + overview: + description: | + The Windows Events plugin by Netdata makes viewing, exploring and analyzing Windows Events simple and + efficient. + + The plugin automatically detects all the available channels and offers a list of "Event Channels". + + By default, it aggregates events from all event channels, providing a unified view of all events. + visualization: + description: | + You can start exploring Windows event logs on the "Logs" tab of the Netdata UI. + key_features: + description: | + - Supports **Windows Event Logs (WEL)**. + - Supports **Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)** and **TraceLogging (TL)**, when events are routed to Event Log. + - Allows filtering on all System Events fields. + - Allows **full text search** (`grep`) on all System and User fields. + - Provides a **histogram** for log entries over time, with a break down per field-value, for any System Event field and any + time-frame. + - Supports coloring log entries based on severity. + - In PLAY mode it "tails" all the Events, showing new log entries immediately after they are received. + setup: + prerequisites: + description: | + - Netdata Cloud paid subscription diff --git a/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md b/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md index 8e05a79b6b..ecaa4349ab 100644 --- a/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md +++ b/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ For more information check [this discussion](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/ The plugin automatically detects all the available channels and offers a list of "Event Channels". -By default, it aggregates events from all event channels, providing a unified systems view of all events. +By default, it aggregates events from all event channels, providing a unified view of all events. > To improve query performance, we recommend selecting the relevant event channels, before doing more > analysis on the events.