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Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail
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."
Oh what, you expect Taco to actually pay attention to what he's posting? He's only been doing this for ten years. It'll be another 15 or 20 before he begins to get article titles right...
Use of SSH is a sign you're losing.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter