Log file analyzer
Hey if any one know any good open source log file Analyzer please let me know. i am badly in need of it
Today i was searching for a log file reader or you can say Log file analyzer. I tryed sourceforge.net and google but i could not find what i wanted. this is what is my requirement, see i have an applactions that is going to update around 10 log files, that applaction is going to process some records which will travel around 10 processes and each process will produce one logfile so when the record is lost some where, i will be able to figure out where it is struck in those 10 process by looking at the log’s. but the problem is now the log files is plane text format so it a little bit difficult to look and find. so if there is any good GUI based log file anlayaser please please comment here or email me
I have found one log file anlayaser which i would like to share it with you may be you may find it usefull for your applactions, but the thing is not doesn’t fit my needs.
Chainsaw v2 is a companion application to Log4j written by members of the Log4j development community. Like a number of Open Source projects, this new version was built upon inspirations, ideas and creations of others. Chainsaw v2 has it’s roots from the original Chainsaw utility written by Oliver Burn, and with inspiration from the Log Factor 5 utility contributed by ThoughtWorks Inc.
Basically what this tool does is it sits like a demon and read all the logs that the application produces and display in a very color full way in a GUI , for this to work you need to configure your application log4j.xml to the settings show in the documentation of the apache chainsaw tool. But in my application there is no log4j.xml to configure, instead it has some proprietary code for writing log’s so i cant use this tool 
Here is the screen shot of the tool (click on the pic for the larger view)
Chainsaw and Log4j’s receivers support parsing of regular text log files. Since Chainsaw allows you to load multiple receiver configurations, you can even parse multiple log files at the same time, and combine all or a subset of the events into a single tab.
Check out VFSLogFilePatternReceiver under the help/receiver javadoc menu.
This receiver uses the Jakarta commons VFS library to provide access to log files on a variety of ‘file system types’. See http://commons.apache.org/vfs/filesystems.html
You can see an example receiver configuration from Chainsaw’s ‘Welcome’ tab – hit the ‘view example receiver configuration’ button.
Hope that helps.
Thanks scott for the suggestion.
i jump the gun i did not even notice it.
i will work on it and let u know if it work’s fine for me ( hope i will blog the HOWTO as well). this tool is going to be a great help for me.
anyways once again thanks for the great help.