[ale] Tomcat Logs

[Mark Shields]

It isn't too difficult so long as you ignore most of the official but
outdated documentation.

- Mark Shields


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Logstash looks good, but looks like it will take a bit work to get
> working, Thanks.
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Logstash is great for standardizing log formats, but Kibana, a web UI
> that
> > works with Logstash (and comes with the combined jar), leaves something
> left
> > to be desired.  I recommend looking at using Logstash to standardize into
> > Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) then sending the data to a Graylog2
> > installation.
> >
> > - Mark Shields
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> +! Logstash
> >>>
> >>> Essentially open source splunk.  You can use Splunk for free if you're
> >>> only looking at a small amount of logs.
> >>>
> >>> Honestly, anyone who is looking at Tomcat logs should probably be
> someone
> >>> who knows how to use vim and/or knows a very basic amount about java
> name
> >>> domains and such.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> There is something called Logstash that our LDAP admin uses - from
> what
> >>>> they told me, it is a pain to set up. They are analyzing LDAP and
> switch
> >>>> logs, and they have it spread across 17 machines. I was not involved
> in the
> >>>> setup, so I don't know the specifics.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tip to logstash. Look a bit large and possibly unwieldy
> but
> >> then so is the pile of systems I work with.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> James P. Kinney III
> >>
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> >> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
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