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Oct 28, 2014

F5 Log Error Strings

We have all our devices in Splunk. I was wondering if anyone has a list or cheatsheet of some errors we should be monitoring for? I have a list of ones I have encountered before, but I'm more worried about the unknown.

 

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  • Hi, I tried to find a complete list of message error but I failed...

     

    Using Splunk you can try the "cluster" search command, it's used to group togheter log messages by similarities. At least you can find what kind of messages you receive from your f5s and then if you need create specific search for the most critical messages.

     

    Try something like this one, you can customize the first part of search to be more specific.

     

    "index=loadbalancer | cluster showcount=t | table cluster_count _raw | sort -cluster_count"

     

    Bye