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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. Re:just a ploy to visualize the slashdot effect by Fudgie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Still running at 30 fps with ~25 requests / second.

  2. Running glTail on Windows by Mazin07 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to run glTail on Windows:

    1. Use the One-click Ruby installer from rubyforge (not Cygwin ruby)
    2. Make sure to `gem install net-ssh`
    3. Change "require 'glut'" to "require 'glut_prev'" to enable legacy GLUT ruby bindings

    Took me a while to figure this out.