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Papertrail can create and update an AppOptics graph displaying the number of log messages matching a search alert.
Follow the steps in Alerts.
From AppOptics’ Settings page, under the API Tokens tab, generate a new Record Only API token for Papertrail.

For the search alert you are creating, choose:
Exploit attempts or systems.http.500.The metric name must be URI-safe. Only alphanumeric characters, periods, hyphens, underscores, or colons are allowed.
Your alert details should look something like this:

The new metric will only appear in AppOptics after the alert has triggered. After it has started reporting, simply click on the metric name to see the chart.

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