Logs live and in color – say goodbye to old school log files

Log messages in files are a pain: they are hard to get hold of, difficult to search, and different sources are tedious to combine. This talk shows you ways to use logs as a real time source of information to react on problems – even before your users file a ticket!

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1. Logs live and in colour -
   say goodbye to old school log files
   Ignite Talk
   Alexander Schwartz
   msg systems ag
   Devoxx Belgium – 12 Nov 2015
   

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2. (cc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/40weekstolive/3207450409/
   

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3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
   

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4. $ mail admin@it-ops
   $ tail -f app.log
   

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6. Buzzword
   Bingo
   { ldap }
   

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7. Error
   Collector
   Application
   Log
   Event
   Analytics
   

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8. Error Collector
   irbrake.io
   Clone of:
   

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9. Java
   Big Picture
   (REST +
   XML)
   

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10. Errbit Workspace
    

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11. Event Analytics
    

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12. syslog
    GELF
    Kafka
    AMQP
    Java REST
    Big Picture
    Elasticsearch
    

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13. Graylog Workspace
    

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14. Graylog Dashboard
    

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15. Application Log
    

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16. Big Picture
    log4j
    logback
    log4xxx
    Nlog
    syslog
    dropzone
    SQL/NoSQL
    Java API
    

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17. logFaces Workspace
    

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18. logFaces Trace & Focus
    

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19. logFaces Query
    

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20. Never ever…
    (cc) http://geek-and-poke.com/2010/11/sorry-but.html
    Errbit: http://errbit.github.io/errbit
    Graylog: http://graylog.org
    logFaces: http://www.moonlit-software.com
    @ahus1de
    

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