Use the Data Discovery feature to quickly catalog and report on a variety of data sources in your buckets. Take a look at our Acceptable Data Formats for a comprehensive list of data/log formats.
Bucket discovery is not required before creating Object Groups. The Discover Bucket functionality is a lens into your Cloud object storage bucket.
Discover Bucket
- Select the desired bucket
- Click Discover Bucket
The duration of the discovery process will depend on the size and volume of your object data.
Viewing Aggregated Data
After the discovery process is complete, a comprehensive bucket content report showing a high-level aggregate view of the data is displayed. This report shows general file information including:
General Bucket Information:
Total Number of FilesTotal File SizeBucket Creation Date
File type distribution:
File TypeTotal SizeAverage Age of the FileNumber of FilesNumber of DuplicatesFile Type Distribution Pie Chart
For each file type that contains duplicates, click the count to display specific details:
Hover over the file distribution chart for file type information:
Security Statistics and Quantities:
- Public objects (Objects that have been made public through Cloud object storage)
- Policies allowed (If any of the bucket policies has been configured to grant access)
- Bucket policies (Whether your bucket has any policies)
For each security reporting item, click the count to display specific details:
The discovery process also identifies any trending prefixes across all data.
Acceptable Data Formats
Name | Table Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
Common Access Log | access_log | The default web access log format for servers like Apache |
VMware vSphere Auto Deploy log format | autodeploy_log | The log format for the VMware Auto Deploy service |
Generic Block | block_log | A generic format for logs, like cron, that have a date at the start of a block. |
Candlepin log format | candlepin_log | Log format used by Candlepin registration system |
Yum choose_repo Log | choose_repo_log | The log format for the yum choose_repo tool |
CUPS log format | cups_log | Log format used by the Common Unix Printing System |
Dpkg Log | dpkg_log | The debian dpkg log |
Amazon ELB log | elb_log | Log format for Amazon Elastic Load Balancers |
engine log | engine_log | The log format for the engine.log files from RHEV/oVirt |
Common Error Log | error_log | The default web error log format for servers like Apache |
Fsck_hfs Log | fsck_hfs_log | Log for the fsck_hfs tool on Mac OS X |
Glog | glog_log | The google glog format |
Java log format | java_log | Log format used by log4j and output by most java programs |
Katello log format | katello_log | Log format used by katello and foreman as used in Satellite 6 |
OpenAM Log | openam_log | The OpenAM identity provider |
OpenAM Debug Log | openamdb_log | Debug logs for the OpenAM identity provider |
OpenStack log format | openstack_log | The log format for the OpenStack log files |
CUPS Page Log | page_log | The CUPS server log of printed pages |
Papertrail Service | papertrail_log | Log format for the papertrail log management service |
SnapLogic Server Log | snaplogic_log | The SnapLogic server log format |
SSSD log format | sssd_log | Log format used by the System Security Services Daemon |
Strace | strace_log | The strace output format |
sudo | sudo_log | The sudo privilege management tool |
Syslog | syslog_log | The system logger format found on most posix systems |
TCF Log | tcf_log | Target Communication Framework log |
TCSH History | tcsh_history | The tcsh history file format |
Uwsgi Log | uwsgi_log | The uwsgi log format |
Vdsm Logs | vdsm_log | Vdsm log format |
VMKernel Logs | vmk_log | The VMKernel’s log format |
VMware Logs | vmw_log | One of the log formats used in VMware’s ESXi and vCenter software |
RHN server XMLRPC log format | xmlrpc_log | Generated by Satellite’s XMLRPC component |
Updated about a month ago
What's Next
| Creating object groups |