[BBLISA] Does this tool exist?

[Dave Goldberg]

> I occasionally have to dig through logs of various kinds... tomcat,
> apache, java programs (log4j),....

> And I've wondered if I should write this tool, or maybe it exists.
> Is there something that will tell me when there are gaps in a log
> file?  I would specify the format of the date/time info, then specify
> how big a gap I want to know about, and it would scan, ripping out the
> date/time & do the date math and when it got a big enough time gap
> between messages it would tell me.

> [...]

Perhaps not what you're looking for, but splunk does this, almost as a side effect of the way it displays its event graph.  I tend to look at it the opposite way - when I see a spike in events overall, I know there's something to go digging for.

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Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6 at verizon.net