On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:29:51AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > Personally I'd like to get general metrics from the logs and list errors / > warnings that we would care about. The problem is we never really know > the format of some errors we get. We had recently gotten some memory > errors from fedorahosted and no one noticed it until we happened to log in > and see it. > > I think I like the idea of a single nightly report that is easy to read > through. The trick is figuring out what should be in that report I guess. > > What are others using for log analysis? > > -Mike Splunk :) But in the non-commercial realm, there's a lot of stuff listed here[1]. In pre-splunk days, we were using swatch[2] quite heavily. It's not pretty to configure, but did its job. Wouldn't be surprised if there are some Python-ish tools out there that do the same. We used it in tandem with syslog-ng (which we still use) and a FIFO. Ray [1] http://www.loganalysis.org/log-parsers-generic/ [2] http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/swatch.html _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
