Logmon consuming large memory

Article Id: 108012
Status: Published
Updated On: 26-07-2018 13:34
Products:
CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM) , NIMSOFT PROBES
Issue/Introduction:

Over time, the memory usage of the logmon probe continues to grow

Environment:

UIM 8.5.1
logmon 3.92

Resolution:

Check to see if any of the following apply with any of your logmon profiles:   

  • Checking for strings that do not exist.
  • Matches per minute or over time (the more frequent, the more resource intensive).
  • Working with a very large number of files?
  • Monitoring very large files ( > 2 GB)?
Also, ensure the "loglevel" is set to "0".
 

Additional Information:

Things logmon is not a good solution for:
https://youtu.be/Ra6j9IDfyho?t=172