Getting Started with Streaming Analytics
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Distributed Log Search

Storm is a distributed streaming engine, which means that many worker nodes can be used to power the streaming application. Because it has a distributed architecture, logs are distributed across the cluster on many worker nodes. Searching for log data across workers can be a painful process. With distributed log search, however, you can search across all logs located across all worker nodes.

The following steps describe how to use distributed log search.

  1. Type your search string in the distributed log search text box:

  2. Review the results.

  3. Click on the link to navigate to the exact location in the log file.