Hi, Sounds COOOOOOOL!
Analyzing system log is one of the most thing for a complex system (especially for distributed system). Will try this feature ASAP :D Best, ----------------------------------- Xiangdong Huang School of Software, Tsinghua University 黄向东 清华大学 软件学院 Tian Jiang <jt2594...@163.com> 于2019年9月4日周三 下午7:59写道： > Greetings, > > > > > Usually, the very first thing we will do on finding a bug is to search the > logs. Logs play a vital role in debugging especially in some environment > that attaching a debugger is impossible. In such circumstance, logs will > hopefully become the only information sources for the developers. > > > > However, a single log, which is just a string, is easy to understand. But > when it comes to mining information from thousands of logs or even more, > getting lost is nearly unavoidable, since humans have a much limited memory > for exact truth compared to computers. From time to time, I forget what I > have read before and I must go back to review the previous logs, as a > result, progress is made very slowly. Reading several strings is easy, but > when we have thousands, there must be some better way to present them than > raw text. > > > > So, I keep thinking it would be much better if we can make the logs into > plots. Of course there must some existing tools, but they are often > powerful but too heavy (like Kibana) , or specialized for web or other logs > (like LogStalgia). Having a fantastic web interface is great, but a simple > but handy suit us better. What I want is something light-weighted, > stand-alone and highly customized. > > > > As a result, I developed a simple tool that can visualize (plot) logs > generated by IoTDB (with some modification, it can be applied to other type > of logs, too) and generate report. I designed a simple GUI which provides > full functionalities and a command line tool to fast generate reports. The > attachment contains an example report I generated from one of my > experiments, which reveal interesting things like how the size of memtables > converges over time. > > > > I may have missed some tools that are more powerful or easier to use. If > you know any, please inform me and I shall see what I can learn from them. > > > > | | > Tian Jiang > | > | > jt2594...@163.com > | > 签名由网易邮箱大师定制
