Get Splunked
This is a welcome addition to the software application stable of overtaxed sysadmins and backend specialists everywhere. Splunk is a free logfile search tool that can dig into files from Apache, syslog, router logs, phone logs, and just about any piece of hardware or software that produces logs. Log files are parsed and indexed as they are created, so the searching and troubleshooting is accomplished much faster than grep, especially when your logs live on different servers.
From Splunk’s site:
Splunk is the new way to see inside the data center. It’s search software that indexes all your fast moving IT data as it happens. From one place, make sense of logs, configuration files, message queues, JMX, SNMP and database transactions from any system, application or device.
Check out the demo and you’ll notice that they included a little search-as-you-type action. And just how do you think they do that? Ajax of course. Can’t get away from Ajax these days it seems…
