[ale] Tomcat Logs

[Chuck Payne]

Logstash looks good, but looks like it will take a bit work to get
working, Thanks.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Logstash is great for standardizing log formats, but Kibana, a web UI that
> works with Logstash (and comes with the combined jar), leaves something left
> to be desired.  I recommend looking at using Logstash to standardize into
> Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) then sending the data to a Graylog2
> installation.
>
> - Mark Shields
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +! Logstash
>>>
>>> Essentially open source splunk.  You can use Splunk for free if you're
>>> only looking at a small amount of logs.
>>>
>>> Honestly, anyone who is looking at Tomcat logs should probably be someone
>>> who knows how to use vim and/or knows a very basic amount about java name
>>> domains and such.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is something called Logstash that our LDAP admin uses - from what
>>>> they told me, it is a pain to set up. They are analyzing LDAP and switch
>>>> logs, and they have it spread across 17 machines. I was not involved in the
>>>> setup, so I don't know the specifics.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tip to logstash. Look a bit large and possibly unwieldy but
>> then so is the pile of systems I work with.
>>
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>>
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