RE: log4j files and parsing and presentation

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Erskine
I am tasked with writing a log4j file aggregator/viewer. Search criteria such as date ranges and etc... Any support for log4j file parsing? Combining a set of log files? Any pointers are appreciated. Hi Reza, Just use the best tools for the job: Perl, cat, sed, awk, and bash. Of course

Re: log4j files and parsing and presentation

2008-09-16 Thread Paul Smith
Interesting, that's sort of what I was intending to do with my Apache Lab project called Pinpoint: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/pinpoint/ The goal of that project is to be able to become a central logging repository. It has support to soak events via network sockets (Socket/

RE: log4j files and parsing and presentation

2008-09-16 Thread Scott Deboy
You can use Chainsaw V2 along with a LogFilePatternReceiver to view and aggregate log files. You can filter/search and colorize using the built-in expression syntax, which does support date ranges, but it's a bit verbose. Example: TIMESTAMP = '2008/09/08 09:41:23' TIMESTAMP = '2008/09/08

Re: log4j files and parsing and presentation

2008-09-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 17/09/2008, at 11:35 AM, Reza Razavipour wrote: Yes, this is a great tool. What I need to do is to do this programatically. So, the application, at any point in time, will have targets that have log4j log files. At user's request, which would be a get of all files, with some date/time

Re: log4j files and parsing and presentation

2008-09-16 Thread Reza Razavipour
Yes, this is a great tool. What I need to do is to do this programatically. So, the application, at any point in time, will have targets that have log4j log files. At user's request, which would be a get of all files, with some date/time constraints, the application will have to combine the log