Best way to view log files

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1

which method have you guys found to be best for viewing the log files?

seems a load of extraneous information.

2

Hi msgvb,

Which log files are you referring to? The openfire system logs or chat logs?

daryl

3

I’m using this simple linux Bash script to view openfires logs. It does simply copy the logfiles to /home/martin/logs and creates there a directory* small *where it places all the logfiles without stacktraces. It does simply removes every line which starts with whitspaces followed by “at”.

#! /bin/sh oldpath=$PWD
cd /home/martin/logs rm *.log
rm -rf small
mkdir small cp /opt/openfire/logs/* . for logfile in *
do
        grep -v "^\W*at" $logfile >small/$logfile
done cd $oldpath
4

the chat logs, sorry.

thanks Cat, but I’m sort of looking for a plug-in type thing or some sort of viewer.

5

dehr. chat log viewing is available in the Monitoring Service Plugin, which is one of the standard plugins available for Openfire.

just have to install it.

even gives a .pdf export option.

for the record, I couldn’t get i-ball working with Openfire 3.5.2

just doesn’t seem to detect the plugin.

6

just coming back to elaborate on iBall not working for Openfire 3.5.2; seems to be a common issue.

I must have missed reading that somewhere.

7

thanks Cat, but I’m sort of looking for a plug-in type thing or some sort of viewer.
When it is sufficient to view that logs in a browser, you could do the following:

  • let the script copy the “compressed” logfiles into the public diretory of your webserver (e.g Apache, …)
  • protect that diretory with an .htaccess file, so only you can read it. Maybe HTTPS would be nice, too.
  • create a cron-job which runs that script every x minutes.
  • maybe you could write a script that converts the log file into HTML => syntax highlighting (should be really easy when using Perl or similar script language)

^^ it’s not perfect, but really easy to realize.