10/16/2025: Enhancement - Host Selection for Application Logs – Alert Logic Support Center

Fortra's Alert Logic has introduced improvements to the Alert Logic console for selecting assets to which application logs apply.

The Application Logs feature allows you to collect flat file logs, which are log messages stored in flat text files; a standard log message format for web servers and other server software. This method is used to ingest logs for analysis via Web Log Analytics (WLA).

Background

Previously, you could only apply Application Logs at the network, subnet, or tag level. Then the configuration would cascade down to any agents within that topology, possibly leading to false positives or noise within the Health console and raising health remediations for files not found on hosts where they do not exist.

Application Log Scope Improvement

With these new improvements, you can now apply Application Logs directly to hosts. The Alert Logic console will only attempt to collect the logs from the specified hosts, reducing the previous false positive health remediations that may have been raised when applied at a higher level.

To view application logs in the Alert Logic console:

Click the menu icon ().
Click Configure > Deployments, and then click the deployment for which you want to configure collections.
On the left navigation panel, under Logs, click Application Logs. For each Application Log Policy, there is an Assets option ( ) where you can view and select individual assets.