This post will be an introduction into how we can build vRLI dashboards from firewall logs pushed from a Mikrotik router. It is just as much a primer on how to build dashboards in vRLI as it is discussing the Mikrotik data so even if you don't have a Mikrotik firewall log to digest you might get some value out of it.

In this post we'll take a look at how to push syslog messages from a Mikrotik router to vRealize Log Insight, and how we can work with the syslog messages to extract fields from them