Hi,

I definetly need that (to adopt to our stuff!)

Julian

Am 08.09.19, 09:13 schrieb "Xiangdong Huang" <saint...@gmail.com>:

    Hi,
    
    Sounds COOOOOOOL!
    
    Analyzing system log is one of the most thing for a complex system
    (especially for distributed system).
    
    Will try this feature ASAP :D
    
    Best,
    -----------------------------------
    Xiangdong Huang
    School of Software, Tsinghua University
    
     黄向东
    清华大学 软件学院
    
    
    Tian Jiang <jt2594...@163.com> 于2019年9月4日周三 下午7:59写道:
    
    > Greetings,
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Usually, the very first thing we will do on finding a bug is to search the
    > logs. Logs play a vital role in debugging especially in some environment
    > that attaching a debugger is impossible. In such circumstance, logs will
    > hopefully become the only information sources for the developers.
    >
    >
    >
    > However, a single log, which is just a string, is easy to understand. But
    > when it comes to mining information from thousands of logs or even more,
    > getting lost is nearly unavoidable, since humans have a much limited 
memory
    > for exact truth compared to computers. From time to time, I forget what I
    > have read before and I must go back to review the previous logs, as a
    > result, progress is made very slowly. Reading several strings is easy, but
    > when we have thousands, there must be some better way to present them than
    > raw text.
    >
    >
    >
    > So, I keep thinking it would be much better if we can make the logs into
    > plots. Of course there must some existing tools, but they are often
    > powerful but too heavy (like Kibana) , or specialized for web or other 
logs
    > (like LogStalgia). Having a fantastic web interface is great, but a simple
    > but handy suit us better. What I want is something light-weighted,
    > stand-alone and highly customized.
    >
    >
    >
    > As a result, I developed a simple tool that can visualize (plot) logs
    > generated by IoTDB (with some modification, it can be applied to other 
type
    > of logs, too) and generate report. I designed a simple GUI which provides
    > full functionalities and a command line tool to fast generate reports. The
    > attachment contains an example report I generated from one of my
    > experiments, which reveal interesting things like how the size of 
memtables
    > converges over time.
    >
    >
    >
    > I may have missed some tools that are more powerful or easier to use. If
    > you know any, please inform me and I shall see what I can learn from them.
    >
    >
    >
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