Steve Flanders

Steve Flanders is a Staff Consulting Architect at VMware and leads Log Insight's Customer Oriented R&D. He has an extensive background in designing and implementing cloud solutions with focuses on ensuring scalability and promoting a cloud vision. Steve has helped architect several cloud offerings including VMware's Cloud Foundry, ATT's Synaptic Storage as a Service, and EMC's Atmos Online. He is also the author of the blog sflanders.net.

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vRealize + Webhooks + ServiceNow

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  In my last post, I talked about all the awesome you can do with the webhook feature available in vRealize products today. In this post, I would like to drill into one of the possible integrations: ServiceNow. Read on to learn more!     Read more...
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vRealize + Webhooks = Infinite Integrations

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  Did you know that both vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations Manager support webhooks? Did you know that webhooks allow integrations with any other product that supports an API? In this post, I would like to demonstrate the integrations that exist today. Read on to learn more!   Read more...

Log Insight 3.3: Query API

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A great new addition to Log Insight 3.3 is the introduction of a query API. While the initial documentation for the feature has not been posted yet, it is in progress and should be available soon. In the meantime, I have included the latest information so you can start leveraging the API today. Read on Read more...

Log Insight Webhook Shims

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Recently I talked about the new webhook feature in Log Insight 3.3. One thing I mentioned in that post is that without native support, you need to write shims to translate events into a format that the remote destination understands. In this post, I will demonstrate a sample shim as well as provide the code Read more...

What's New in Log Insight 3.3

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I am happy to announce Log Insight 3.3! While the download will be available later, you can sign up here to be notified once released. One of the big announcements with this release is that everyone with a vCenter Server license gets a free version of Log Insight! To learn more, be sure to check out this Read more...

Log Insight for Web Traffic

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Happy New Year! You may have noticed in late December some new Log Insight content packs were published to the marketplace. In this post I would like to talk about which content packs were released and the value they provide. Read more...

How to Integrate Log Insight with vRealize Operations

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I realized I have never covered vRealize Operations (vR Ops) integration for Log Insight (LI)! This integration is extremely powerful and worth digging into in order to understand the value it brings. As you may know, there are two primary types of data in your environment: Structured: vR Ops is meant to collect primarily structured data, Read more...