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Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

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."

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  1. Oh dear... by DamonHD · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I'm afraid that's the nearest I've seen to a simulated pissing contest ever! B^>

    Rgds

    Damon

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  2. Oh great... by GodlikeDoglike · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...we just made his log screen look like a bukkake flick.

  3. engineering management 101 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    tell the engineer it can't be done

  4. Oh, Sweeeetness! by avirrey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You gotta add an 'Asteroids' ship on the screen that lets you shoot down connections!

    "Oh, look! Bob just logged on... let's get 'em!"

    ...

    "IT support. How can I help you?"

    "Hi, this is Bob..."

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  5. Ob quote by Provocateur · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.

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