Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail 131
Fudgie writes "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong. A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X). It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at fudgie.org for an example movie, and more information."
Oh dear... (Score:5, Funny)
Rgds
Damon
Oh great... (Score:5, Funny)
Just took a look at the video (Score:2, Funny)
Nice work though.
engineering management 101 (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, Sweeeetness! (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh, look! Bob just logged on... let's get 'em!"
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"IT support. How can I help you?"
"Hi, this is Bob..."
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X's and O's for all my foes.
Compiz for syslogs - ohmygawd ! (Score:3, Funny)
For those unlucky and late, actually, you missed a competition of peeing coloured snowflakes from the right versus doing the same from the left.
Only, the sources on the left are much better at aiming.
Plus, you have some 'Login
Heads up, Fudgie, it is truely the most amazing display of log files ever creeping across my eyes.
Keep the good work up, and please post again when you have something actually useful for the sysadmin.
I declare you 'King of Log Candy' !
Ob quote (Score:4, Funny)
I loved this line: (Score:1, Funny)
"Certain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated."
Re:Oh, Sweeeetness! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:engineering management 101 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not "Fudgie", glTail (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Looks promising (Score:4, Funny)
So...how many hours of unpaid overtime did your boss get out of you?
I like getting paid for my awesome work. Kudos, though.
Google called (Score:2, Funny)