[ale] Log parsing/alerting tool recomendations

[Robert L. Harris]

Because the developers who are writing the application which will generate
the logs asked us to find out what tool we are going to use to read/parse
the logs so they can decide how to write the logs.



On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Why not just write a logwatch script to parse your log messages?
>
> -derek
>
> Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am interested in what kind of tools people are using. I am parsing
> security
> > logs, and writing my own scripts to output csv. I think the more general
> the
> > parsing tool, the better, and a feature I really like is pushing the
> finished
> > product to the end user by email.
> >
> > Wolf Halton
> > --
> > http://wolfhalton.info
> > Apache developer:
> > wolfhalton at apache.org
> >
> > On May 28, 2013 6:36 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >       I'm working with a number of developers trying to create a logging
> >     standard for some apps and devices my company is developing.  Most
> of them
> >     are linux based and running syslog-ng so we have some flexibility
> and can
> >     standardize.  The big concern though is coming up with a format for
> the
> >     logs for the tools we will (may) be using to parse the data.
>  Personally I
> >     like the idea of using cmd line and piping unix utils.
> >
> >       A recommendation was thrown out though to ask about how others are
> >     parsing system and application logs to look for issues, tracking,
> etc and
> >     what kinds of input they take (json, xlm, .log, etc).  Anyone have
> any
> >     tools you're using that are just incredible and what kinds of input
> they
> >     can work with?
> >
> >     Robert
> >
> >     --
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