Monitor Adaptive Logs

To ensure your Adaptive Logs configuration is working effectively and delivering meaningful volume reduction without losing important information, it’s important to monitor its behavior over time.

This topic covers the primary way to check the health and effectiveness of Adaptive Logs: the Overview dashboard. The overview dashboard provides a high-level view of log volume, drop behavior, and processing rates, helping you understand how Adaptive Logs is reducing noise and accelerating troubleshooting.

It provides a quick, visual summary of how much log data is being received, how much is being dropped, and how those rates change over time.

Use the overview dashboard

To access the overview dashboard, navigate to Adaptive Telemetry > Adaptive Logs > Overview.

You can adjust the time range using the time picker in the upper-right corner of the dashboard to analyze recent behavior or investigate longer-term trends. Changing the time range helps you compare activity before and after deployments, configuration changes, or incidents.

Dropped log volume

This panel shows the percentage of incoming log data that Adaptive Logs is dropping during the selected time range.

Use this panel to:

Understand the overall effectiveness of Adaptive Logs in reducing log lines
Identify unexpected increases or decreases in dropped volume
Verify that Adaptive Logs is actively filtering log noise

A consistently high dropped percentage indicates that repetitive or low-value logs are being successfully removed. Sudden changes may indicate upstream logging changes or configuration updates.

Total dropped

This panel displays the total volume of log data that has been dropped over the selected time range.

Use this panel to:

Quantify the absolute volume of data being removed
Estimate cost savings from reduced log ingestion
Compare dropped volume across different time windows

Large increases often correspond to periods of high log repetition or bursts in log generation.

Total received

This panel shows the total volume of log data received by Adaptive Logs before any dropping occurs.

Use this panel to:

Understand how much raw log data your systems are producing
Detect spikes or drops in log generation
Correlate changes in received volume with deployments or incidents

This represents the baseline input that Adaptive Logs is analyzing.

Volume rates

This graph shows the rate of log data per second, split into:

Received log volume
Dropped log volume

Use this panel to:

Compare incoming versus dropped log rates over time
Visualize how Adaptive Logs reacts to changes in log traffic
Identify sustained periods of high drop activity or sudden shifts in volume

The difference between received and dropped rates represents the log data that is retained.

What to look for

When monitoring Adaptive Logs, pay attention to:

Stable dropped percentages over time, indicating predictable behavior
Sudden changes in received or dropped volume
High dropped volume during noisy periods, confirming Adaptive Logs is working as expected
Unexpected drops to zero dropped volume, which may indicate configuration or ingestion issues