LogScale Beginner Introduction

Learn the basics of LogScale

Hello, and welcome to Falcon LogScale — we're happy you're here!

LogScale is a platform designed to store log management information so that you can query and make decisions about security, performance and resilience by studying and reporting on the contents of the log files. The stored data can be used to build graphs, identify anomalies, and create alerts to monitor your systems.

In this guide, we will take you through the steps of using a demonstrative, interacting tutorial while you're trying LogScale for the first time. You will also learn some preliminary information to configuretraining-getting-started-widgets, ingest, and use LogScale to process and search your data. These basics can be applied to production deployments with your own data.

The information provided in this section are intended as an introduction for beginners. Afterward, you want to look at these other sections:

LogScale Tutorials for detailed guidelines and the steps to explore and use all LogScale components and functionalities
LogScale Overview for an in-depth view of the basic concepts about how LogScale operates.
When you've completed the full LogScale training and you're convinced that LogScale is for you, you can contact us to help you to integrate it into your production system.

Deploying LogScale

LogScale is available using two primary deployment methods, LogScale Cloud or LogScale Self-Hosted:

LogScale Cloud requires no installation, with the service deployed within a private, secure SaaS solution. The Hosted service is automatically upgraded to the latest version of LogScale and enables you to ingest data from your servers into a secure data repository.
LogScale Self-Hosted installation enables you to deploy LogScale on your own infrastructure. A Self-Hosted install can be completed on bare metal, virtual instances, or a variety of different container-based deployments using Kubernetes. Self-Hosted installation can be to a single node or multiple nodes within a cluster.

For all installations, your LogScale deployment is managed through a web-based interface. The web interface can be used to monitor all of your LogScale servers, query your data, create dashboards and views, and configure alerts for your incoming data.

Trying LogScale

This guide consists of two separate sections designed to demonstrate how to use the LogScale environment, and then support you sampling LogScale's capabilities using your own data:

Using Demo Data
Introduces you to the basic components of LogScale, and takes you through the built-in LogScale tutorial.
Using Your Data
For a more in depth guide to the different systems in LogScale, this section will guide you through the process of ingesting your own data into LogScale, running sample queries, creating dashboards, and encourages you to understand the LogScale interface.

LogScale Training

Beginner Introduction

LogScale Tutorials

LogScale Video Series

LogScale Overview

LogScale Internal Architecture