Items tagged logging in 2009
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clarity. A web interface for tailing and grepping the log files in /var/log, written in Ruby and EventMachine. # 4th November 2009, 10:36 pm
Python Logging 101. A really useful introduction to Python’s logging module by that module’s author, Vinay Sajip. # 29th September 2009, 6:40 pm
Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out which ones are worth advocating for. I’m also ensuring I have the code to back them up—my innocent AutoEscaping proposal a few years ago resulted in an enormous amount of work by Malcolm and I don’t think he’d appreciate a repeat performance.
[... 1674 words]Justniffer. Packet sniffing tool that can output sniffed HTTP traffic formatted the same way as an Apache access_log file. # 25th September 2009, 10:12 pm
“MongoDB is fantastic for logging”. Sounds tempting... high performance inserts, JSON structured records and capped collections if you only want to keep the past X entries. If you care about older historic data but still want to preserve space you could run periodic jobs to roll up log entries in to summarised records. It shouldn’t be too hard to write a command-line script that hooks in to Apache’s logging directive and writes records to MongoDB. # 26th August 2009, 7:09 pm
Python logging from multiple processes. Use Python’s socket log handler to send all log messages to a single server—the python-loggingserver project implements such a server as a Twisted application with a handy web interface for viewing the aggregated logs. # 13th August 2009, 11:55 pm