[ale] Log parsing/alerting tool recomendations

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Perhaps you're looking for standard on the format of the logs instead?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_Format


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> check this site for an idea:
>
> http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Config/Logging.html
>
> I find apache logs very easy to parse with many tools.
>
> Another way to look at this is from the viewpoint of someone having to
> understand why the apps are not working as they think they should. What
> type of data would help?  At that point, the data type will usually dictate
> an output format. And sysadmins _LOVE_ error messages like:
>
> application foo received 0x120BAF02 at 0x33BD000001A1. Is this OK?
>
> That is useless! Saw that (different addresses) during a Debian install
> once. I thought my head would explode.
>
> I've seen many java applications (java is a great drink and a country I've
> never visited. It's a crappy language that should not be taught - grr) that
> split up logs into sort of a user/admin general process, admin error, and
> application error tracking. Each had a deeper level of details with very
> long time stamps.
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:34 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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