In v1.0.5 a new feature was introduced that send syslog record for each datapower transaction.

This syslog record is a json formatted data object the consist of information aggregated from several sources on the transaction.

Customer value

• Feature assist customers to easily show datapower information on their APMs or log aggregator such IBM APMs , Splunk or ELK without being exposed to changes in DataPower log structure.
• Customer can also add a link to redirect from each transaction into DPOD details transaction and enhance troubleshooting
• DPOD customer scan externalize DPOD info for Data Warehouse purpose .
• DPOD customers can keep summarize transaction details . This will increase history time and minimize storage.

Transaction Record structure

Feature enablement

To enable this feature 3 steps are required: 

1. Install plugin on each Store node.
2. Configure manually each syslog agent.
3. Configure each Store node with target syslog

Plugin install

1. The plugin is located at  /installs/tech-preview/es-changes-feed-plugin.zip
2. In order to extract the plugin please follow the procedure :
   1. cd  /installs/tech-preview
   2. unzip es-changes-feed-plugin.zip
   3. The command will create the following files in the directory /installs/tech-preview :
      1. MonTierEventsFeedPlugin.zip
      2. MonTierEventsFeedPlugin.zip.md5