Drill down to discover root causes
When you see a spike of interest on a dashboard that requires further investigation, you can easily drill into the related content to discover the root cause. This page shows you how you can easily discover related dashboards and corresponding logs searches that pertain to an issue in your environment.
Drilling into related content
Sumo Logic provides relevant log searches and dashboards to consider investigating, as well as other locations with relevant content. This facilitates quickly discovering the root cause and devising a plan of action.
To discover and view related content, do the following:
- Log in to Sumo Logic and open the Dashboard (New).
- Select the graph data point you are interested in. In the following screenshot, we selected Load Balancer Errors in the honeycomb graph. A list of related content links appears in a panel on the right.
Summary tab
Select links from the Summary tab to go directly to:
- Associated Logs
- Recommended Dashboards
Infrastructure tab
The Infrastructure tab provides the following Troubleshooting Links for related Entities and Environments. To investigate, click an icon to launch another feature against the entity or environment. An icon is not available if isn't a valid launch.
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