You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by Jimi Hullegård <ji...@mogul.com> on 2010/04/19 18:53:11 UTC

Display log in a web page?

Hi,

Does anyone know of a open source project that provides a way to display the "content" of one or more Log4j appenders to a web page? I want to use it in a admin web application so that one can easily look at various log files.

So instead of using ConsoleAppender or FileAppender one could use some custom appender that collects logging that should be displayed on the web page. And on that web page maybe it is possible to enter text (maybe regex) to filter out what log lines to display, and a possibillity turn "auto update" (ie "tail") on or off.

Basically, what I'm looking for is a web base component/widget that acts almost as the application BareTailPro ( http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretailpro/index.php ).

In my case the admin web application will reside in the same Tomcat as the the web application it administrates. And the expected traffic is low and the web server is not publically available. So I'm not worried about the security or the performance issues that could be the case for normal web applications.

Does such a thing exist? Maybe something similar? I have looked around for something like this but not found anything usefull.

Any tips would be very welcome. For example, if a log4j-specific solution doesn't exist, then maybe there exists a solution that can display simple log text files in a similar fashion?

Re: Display log in a web page?

Posted by Jimi Hullegård <ji...@mogul.com>.

I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow you now... Who are "we"? The Log4j developer team? Whirlpool? (I though Wirlpool was a household appliance manufacturer)

/Jimi

________________________________________
Från: Douglas E Wegscheid [Douglas_E_Wegscheid@whirlpool.com]
Skickat: den 19 april 2010 19:06
Till: Log4J Users List
Kopia: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
Ämne: Re: Display log in a web page?

we haven't implemented it yet, but will be in the next month or so: use
JdbcAppender, and write a web app to report against the database.

Douglas E Wegscheid
Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation
(269)-923-5278

"A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played
with conviction is interpretation."

Jimi Hullegård <ji...@mogul.com>
04/19/2010 12:53 PM
Please respond to
"Log4J Users List" <lo...@logging.apache.org>

To
"log4j-user@logging.apache.org" <lo...@logging.apache.org>
cc

Subject
Display log in a web page?

Hi,

Does anyone know of a open source project that provides a way to display
the "content" of one or more Log4j appenders to a web page? I want to use
it in a admin web application so that one can easily look at various log
files.

So instead of using ConsoleAppender or FileAppender one could use some
custom appender that collects logging that should be displayed on the web
page. And on that web page maybe it is possible to enter text (maybe
regex) to filter out what log lines to display, and a possibillity turn
"auto update" (ie "tail") on or off.

Basically, what I'm looking for is a web base component/widget that acts
almost as the application BareTailPro (
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretailpro/index.php ).

In my case the admin web application will reside in the same Tomcat as the
the web application it administrates. And the expected traffic is low and
the web server is not publically available. So I'm not worried about the
security or the performance issues that could be the case for normal web
applications.

Does such a thing exist? Maybe something similar? I have looked around for
something like this but not found anything usefull.

Any tips would be very welcome. For example, if a log4j-specific solution
doesn't exist, then maybe there exists a solution that can display simple
log text files in a similar fashion?

Regards
/Jimi
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscribe@logging.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-help@logging.apache.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscribe@logging.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-help@logging.apache.org

Re: Display log in a web page?

Posted by Douglas E Wegscheid <Do...@whirlpool.com>.

we haven't implemented it yet, but will be in the next month or so: use 
JdbcAppender, and write a web app to report against the database.

Douglas E Wegscheid
Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation
(269)-923-5278

"A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played 
with conviction is interpretation."





Jimi Hullegård <ji...@mogul.com> 
04/19/2010 12:53 PM
Please respond to
"Log4J Users List" <lo...@logging.apache.org>


To
"log4j-user@logging.apache.org" <lo...@logging.apache.org>
cc

Subject
Display log in a web page?






Hi,

Does anyone know of a open source project that provides a way to display 
the "content" of one or more Log4j appenders to a web page? I want to use 
it in a admin web application so that one can easily look at various log 
files.

So instead of using ConsoleAppender or FileAppender one could use some 
custom appender that collects logging that should be displayed on the web 
page. And on that web page maybe it is possible to enter text (maybe 
regex) to filter out what log lines to display, and a possibillity turn 
"auto update" (ie "tail") on or off. 

Basically, what I'm looking for is a web base component/widget that acts 
almost as the application BareTailPro ( 
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretailpro/index.php ).

In my case the admin web application will reside in the same Tomcat as the 
the web application it administrates. And the expected traffic is low and 
the web server is not publically available. So I'm not worried about the 
security or the performance issues that could be the case for normal web 
applications.

Does such a thing exist? Maybe something similar? I have looked around for 
something like this but not found anything usefull.

Any tips would be very welcome. For example, if a log4j-specific solution 
doesn't exist, then maybe there exists a solution that can display simple 
log text files in a similar fashion? 

Regards
/Jimi
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscribe@logging.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-help@logging.apache.org