Does the LogMonitor agent use RegEx industry standard?
How to build matching strings?
How to build a match string, that does not contain continuous words in the string set?
The LogMonitor uses RegEx industry standard (java script). Here are som explanations and examples.
Filename example: ManagementServer_2017-05-18_102927_001.log
Regex: ^ManagementServer_20.*\.log$
This example matches the latest FMS log in the year 20xx
The following resources can help you build your RegEx sets to enter into Foglight LogFilter Agent Matching List. In the specific example of trying to "find two or more words near each other". This is done with emulating "near" in a Regular Expression and is explained here
You can test your built regex expression against blocks of text using regex tester Online 3rd party regex tester regex101
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