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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions docs/en/serverless/logging/log-monitoring.mdx
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- <DocLink slug="/serverless/observability/discover-and-explore-logs">Discover and explore</DocLink>: Discover and explore all of the log events flowing in from your servers, virtual machines, and containers in a centralized view.
- <DocLink slug="/serverless/observability/aiops-detect-anomalies">Detect log anomalies</DocLink>: Use ((ml)) to detect log anomalies automatically.

## Monitor data sets

The **Data Set Quality** page provides an overview of your data sets and their quality.
Use this information to get an idea of your overall data set quality, and find data sets that contain incorrectly parsed documents.

<DocLink id="serverlessObservabilityMonitorDatasets">Monitor data sets</DocLink>

## Application logs

Application logs provide valuable insight into events that have occurred within your services and applications.
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id: serverlessObservabilityMonitorDatasets
slug: /serverless/observability/monitor-datasets
title: Monitor log data set quality
description: Monitor log data sets to find degraded documents.
tags: [ 'serverless', 'observability', 'how-to' ]
---

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The **Data Set Quality** page provides an overview of your log data sets.
Use this information to get an idea of your overall log data set quality and find data sets that contain incorrectly parsed documents.
Access the Data Set Quality page from the main ((kib)) menu and go to **Stack Management****Data Set Quality**.

<DocImage size="2" url="../images/logs-dataset-overview.png" alt="Screen capture of the data set overview" />

<DocCallOut title="Requirements">
Users with the `viewer` role can view the Data Sets Quality summary. To view the Active Data Sets and Estimated Data summaries, users need the `monitor` [index privilege](((ref))/security-privileges.html#privileges-list-indices) for the `logs-*-*` index.
</DocCallOut>

The quality of your data sets is based on the percentage of degraded documents in each data set.
A degraded document in a data set contains the [`_ignored`](((ref))/mapping-ignored-field.html) property because one or more of its fields were ignored during indexing.
Fields are ignored for a variety of reasons.
For example, when the [`ignore_malformed`](((ref))/mapping-ignored-field.html.html) parameter is set to true, if a document field contains the wrong data type, the malformed field is ignored and the rest of the document is indexed.

From the data set table, you'll find information for each data set such as its namespace, when the data set was last active, and the percentage of degraded docs.
The percentage of degraded documents determines the data set's quality according to the following scale:

* Good (<DocImage flatImage alt="Good icon" url="../images/green-dot-icon.png" />): 0% of the documents in the data set are degraded.
* Degraded (<DocImage flatImage alt="Degraded icon" url="../images/yellow-dot-icon.png" />): Greater than 0% and up to 3% of the documents in the data set are degraded.
* Poor (<DocImage flatImage alt="Poor icon" url="../images/red-dot-icon.png" />): Greater than 3% of the documents in the data set are degraded.

Opening the details of a specific data set shows the degraded documents history, a summary for the data set, and other details that can help you determine if you need to investigate any issues.

## Investigate issues
The Data Set Quality page has a couple of different ways to help you find ignored fields and investigate issues.
From the data set table, you can expand a data set's details, and view commonly ignored fields and information about those fields.
You can also open a data set in Logs Explorer to find ignored fields in individual logs.

### Find ignored fields in data sets
To expand the details of a dataset with poor or degraded quality and view ignored fields:

1. From the data set table, click <DocIcon type="expand" title="expand icon" /> next to a data set with poor or degraded quality.
1. From the details, scroll down to **Degraded fields**.

The **Degraded fields** section shows fields that have been ignored, the number of documents that contain ignored fields, and the timestamp of last occurrence of the field being ignored.

### Find ignored fields in individual logs
To use Logs Explorer to find ignored fields in individual logs:

1. Find data sets with degraded documents using the **Degraded Docs** column of the data sets table.
1. Click the percentage in the **Degraded Docs** column to open the data set in Logs Explorer.

The **Documents** table in Logs Explorer is automatically filtered to show documents that were not parsed correctly.
Under the *actions* column, you'll find the degraded document icon (<DocIcon type="indexClose" title="degraded document icon" />).

Now that you know which documents contain ignored fields, examine them more closely to find the origin of the issue:

1. Under the **actions** column, click <DocIcon type="expand" title="expand icon" /> to open the log details.
1. Select the **JSON** tab.
1. Scroll towards the end of the JSON to find the `ignored_field_values`.

Here, you'll find all of the `_ignored` fields in the document and their values, which should provide some clues as to why the fields were ignored.
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* **Filter for value (<DocIcon type="plusInCircle" title="filter for value icon" />):** Show logs that contain the specific field value.
* **Filter out value (<DocIcon type="minusInCircle" title="filter out value icon" />):** Show logs that do _not_ contain the specific field value.
* **Filter for field present (<DocIcon type="filter" title="filter for present icon" />):** Show logs that contain the specific field.
* **Toggle column in table (<DocIcon type="listAdd" title="toggle column in table icon" />):** Add or remove a column for the field to the main Logs Explorer table.
* **Toggle column in table (<DocIcon type="listAdd" title="toggle column in table icon" />):** Add or remove a column for the field to the main Logs Explorer table.

## View log data set details

From the main ((kib)) menu, go to **Stack Management****Data Set Quality* to view more details about your data sets and monitor their overall quality.

Refer to <DocLink id="serverlessObservabilityMonitorDatasets">Monitor data sets</DocLink> for more information.
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