Open Source Logging Software

swatchdog.pl started out as swatch, the "simple watchdog" for activity monitoring log files produced by UNIX's syslog facility. It has since been evolving into a utility that can monitor just about any type of log. The name has been changed to satisfy a request made by the old Swiss watch company.

Cinemagoer is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. Platform-independent, it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole db.

A tool to visualize interactively huge amounts of eventdata. Uses an innovative hierarchical zoomlens scaling from quarters down to 50 ms.

Simple (low requirements) log viewer for use in embedded servers.

Kojoney is an easy of use, secure, robust and powerfull Honeypot for the SSH Service written in Python. With the kojoney daemon are distributeds other tools such as kip2country (IP to Country) and kojreport, a tool to generate reports from the log fi

The SiteTalent Freeware project is designed to offer people a dynamic solution for creating a Enterprise resource database. You can track all of your servers,ssl certs, applications, and dns entries from one convenient location.

Command line tool that can view multiple log files remotely and blend them into a single output based on the appropriate dates within the log files themselves. Has cat and tail modes available. Support for multiple local/remote protocols

Log4j Viewer is an Eclipse plugin which can read various patterns of log4j's log file and show them in a structured table view which filtering, sorting, searching may apply on.

LogMiner is a powerful log analysis package for Apache/IIS (or other web servers using the "combined" or Extended W3C log formats). It can extract and present statistics about visits, hits, traffic, navigation paths, browsers and OS's used by users.

LogSplitter is a log handler for Apache which combines the features of rotatelogs, splitlog and (in part) cronolog.

AVirCAP is a system for manual and / or automated detection of CodeRed and Nimda type of hack attempts and virtually all other kinds of "logable" intrusion attempts. It can work stand alone or together with other additional AVirCAP machines in the LAN/W

Big-Brother is a collection of J2EE filters and servlets that provide custom monitoring and auditing of web-applications, keeping track of who does what, when, and how often. It makes use of the jakarta-apache Struts framework for the interface GUI.

Platform based on JMS queues to centralize System Event Messages (syslog) and Application Layer Messages, persisting them in several Databases and providing several pre- and post- processes according the message's nature, like encryption, mail.

New version 1.03 is released! Check it out. LogEngine is a C++ library for easy and flexible logging to files. Multithreaded, easy to use and fast. Automatic logfile backup (several modes). A small amount of code. Platform Independent.

Cisco Perl Tools contains CIPAT (Cisco IP Accounting aggregator) and ISDN-Reporter (Cisco ISDN call aggregation and reporting tool). [NetProvisioning has moved to its own project page on SF]

Configurable Caching Logresolver.

An eclipse plugin providing tail in view component.

FGT, the Flexible Graphing Tool is a cgi for producing statistics based on any data-set. It is intended to be used for summarised data, taking up far less space than the original logs.

GILoT is an interpreting and formatting log tail:er. As each log entry is matched and formatted against customizeable rules, only relevant data is parsed. GILoT features, atm, two separate user interfaces, a console UI and an ncurses/charva TUI.

GeneSyS is an open generic framework for network and system management, based on intelligent software agents using web-services/SOAP. It is a supervision tool for monitoring, management and control of distributed applications built with Java, .NET, PHP.

This is yet another simple piece of software that extracts all the basic stats from honeyd’s text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database. Then you can run some queries and of course visualize the data if you want to. Many things are hardcoded or dead simple, but it does the job. The file is a modified version of “honeyd_importer” perl script originally writen by Joshua Gimer and shared through “honeypots” mailing list.

Provide a plugabble and configurable alternative to UNIX tools like grep, awk, tail, head, cut, sort, uniq or even some perl based scripts in a Java environment. A bit like what Apache Ant means to good old make.

Command line LOGalyze client. logalyze-cli is a powerful command line client for managing LOGalyze engine. With LOGalyze application log analyzer, you can collect your log data from any device, analyze, normalize and parse them.

Tools for the Budget SysAdmin<> Pix Log Parser: It parses pix logs for information and creates reports from it <> SGZLogs. Searches gzipped logs for multiple terms and saves reports.<>

monitors logfiles and displays in realtime. log messages may be formatted with different fonts and colors, contents can be parsed, reformated, may even trigger actions playing sounds or executing shell commands. Log can be viewed remotely via webbrowser.