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Looking for opens source log aggregator
Open Source Alternatives
Graylog2
Logstash
Kibana
Do update the question with comments as to which one you end up using and your personal comments
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Program to log which program has the focus on Microsoft Windows
You can use Window Focus Logger (Wayback Machine) (original source broken: www.adminscope.com/downloads/window-focus-logger)
Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8
Portable
Free for personal and commercial use
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might want to log to SQLite databases instead of plain text files for the following reasons:
SQLite is part of the python standard runtime library. Thus, databases can be created, filled and ...
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might be able to use:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04
Logstash forwards the logs to the central logging ...
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Serial port logging
In case you are interested, the Serial Console Logging with the Text Highlights with Timestamps, as well as get a HTML report Generated ? Check out this Free & powerful Console Application.
https:/...
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Record the travel distance of the pointer throughout the day on Microsoft Windows
Mousotron (free) might be suitable:
Mousotron is a mouse and keyboard activity monitor and keeps statistics of your mileage. It's like an odometer or tripometer for your mouse cursor.
It ...
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“Grep” that highlights instead of filter
The easiest way looks like this, I think:
tail -f logfile.log | grep -e 'error' -e '**'
No need to install anything.
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Header-based C++ logging library
Here are a few options for you to consider. I can't really vouch for the first two myself because I haven't used them:
EasyLogging: "Single header only, extremely light-weight high performance ...
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"tail -f" that keeps retrying until files exist
Though the output is not exactly as tail -f, the multitail command, available in the package of the same name in several distributions, does quite well. The example
multitail --retry -i abc.log -q ...
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Alternative to ELK, but based on PostgreSQL
I'm very excited about TimescaleDB, which is an extension to Postgres that creates hyper tables that handle all the time series partitioning magic and supposedly bring huge scale to write throughput. ...
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Program to log which program has the focus on Microsoft Windows
You can use https://www.happydroid.com/focus (also available via Wayback Machine).
Features:
Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10
Portable
Gratis
CLI
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Sentry: event_from_exception() to HTML
I don't think that what you want is specific to sentry_sdk.
You just want a generic function to "pretty print" a Python dictionary, to HTML.
It is easy enough to code for yourself (and fun ...
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Are any C++ logging libraries safe to use within fork'ed/exec'ed processes?
I was successfully using spdlog in such scenario. Just initialize logger after calling fork.
https://github.com/gabime/spdlog
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Cross-platform technical log-keeping / journalling
It sounds like Red Notebook might be ideal for your needs:
Gratis & Open Source
Cross Platform
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How to monitor file/folder changes made while offline?
It sounds like what you need is a full VCS, version control system, of which there are several free ones. More specifically you need a, DVCS, Distributed VCS.
With such a system each of you would ...
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Header-based C++ logging library
Actually I was looking the same (plus some more requirements). Unfortunately I couldn't find a library that suited my needs so I had to write my own logging library: plog.
It has the following ...
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Network traffic logging (http + https)
This would at least implement logging and blocking
If you have pfsense you should be able to rig something up with iptables and -J LOG or -J NFLOG and port 80,443 and some other things and you got ...
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Looking for a OSX alternative for baretail
Another alternative i just found is lnav from lnav.org. Source is available on Github.
lnav is a highly configurable log viewer packed with features. I has coloring, filtering, advanced querying, ...
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Log viewer with JSON support
Found this free library on GitHub which I had used earlier. Log viewer converts the patch of text into individual blocks of json data for easy viewing of large logs of json files. Additionally the log ...
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FTP server to store user information and logs in database
I am not aware about FTP server which can store log and traces directly to the database. But there is an option to ask your logging subsystem store data to database. For instance, rsyslogd have a ...
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Need a log management tool which displays logs from all servers(connected locally) and also shows some metrics of APM
If you are running unix, linux, or any of the BSD variants, your logging facility is syslog. In it you can log to a syslog daemon on another host.
Mac is mostly unix under the hood, but apple has ...
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How to view log or text files of remote computer in browser?
Your question is a vague, but I think I know what you are asking. You could set up an Apache web server to allow directory listing and set the log files to be in the served directory (default on ...
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Show unique log statements
Typically date, time, thread, etc. are at the start of a log line. Often, will either be a fixed count of characters, or delimited by some character like a comma or colon.
Simply take your log file, ...
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Best way to intercept/log HTTPS requests?
If the docker tool does not implement certificate pinning a proxy like Mitmproxy would be best. The text base UI may look a bit complicated but you don't have to use it, you can use mitmweb instead.
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Effective ways to store text events
So, I think I can finally resolve my question. We built a system with ClickHouse DB as a storage, and Apache Kafka as an event receiver. We receive 200Gb of client logs per day (and this is current ...
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Effective ways to store text events
You didn't mention about managed service or not, then you can try AWS Redshift (OLAP). Starting with Dense Storage type (ds2.xlarge), with configuration : 1 Leader Node, and 2 Compute Node.
To send ...
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Where can I find a complete/non-biased comparison of available C++ logging libraries?
good luck with that :-)
More seriously, though, you can:
Compare followers, forks and star'ers on GitHub, for those libraries which are hosted on GitHub. That's an imperfect, but unbiased, measure ...
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Parser for chrome logs
You can try a Logstash, an open source server-side data processing pipeline that can transport and process your logs, events, or other data. It has many plugins, or you can write your own specifically ...
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Software to track all kind of activity
I would recommend RescueTime.
RescueTime is a time tracking application that runs in background without you doing anything. This application tracks which programs or applications you spend time using....
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Log viewer with JSON support
You can visualize JSON log at console very easily with munia-pretty-json and there are many options to filter and color the JSON keys.
Your json data (app-log.json)
{"time":"2021-06-...
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