AMA agent and SQL ERRORLOG

[gimmecoderg]

We've had some struggles with using a custom data source in the legacy agent for the SQL "ERRORLOG" file. Since it doesn't have an extension, it's not able to be explicitly set as a path. I've tried several wildcard paths like \ERRORLOG. and \ERRORLOG.* - no dice.

Looking in this updated article for the new AMA, it doesn't seem to indicate that it's any different, even using DCRs.

I also see that we can likely use SQL agent to write errors to a windows event log, so we might pursue that if natively reading ERRORLOG isn't doable.

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[AjayBathini-MSFT]

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