Text Log Monitor
Real-Time Text Log Monitoring Software Tools
Text Log Monitor is a log management tool that provides System Administrators
with the ability to real-time and on-demand monitor, filter, alert, consolidate,
archive, schedule web and email reports, and tail critical operating system
and application logs.
Please note Text Log Monitor has now been replaced by Corner Bowl Log Manager.
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Delimited and Non-Delimited
Supports both delimited and non-delimited text log files. Delimited files
follow a specific format enabling programmatic parsing over multiple lines,
for example, syslog files. Delimited files are read line by line until the
next entry delimiter is reached. Once reached, all lines are concatenated
together to form an entry. Non-delimited files do not follow any specific
format making programmatic parsing impossible. Non-delimited log files are
read and filtered line by line.
Directory Monitor
Many applications create log files using a random or a date driven naming
mechanism. Text Log Monitor enables you to monitor files within a directory
that match user defined file name masks that include time based criteria such
as *.txt and *<yyyyMMdd>.log. When a new file is detected, Text Log
Monitor automatically starts monitoring the file contents.
Advanced Filtering
Text Log Monitor's powerful filtering searches through text logs allowing you
to pin point critical log entries using simple or complex regular expression
driven filters.
Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley may require your organization to archive critical log files for
future reference and accountability. Text Log Monitor will archive your logs
in their entirety or as a sub-set to a central SQL Server or MySQL database as
well as to CSV, HTML, TXT, or XML files.
Alerts, Notifications, and Actions
Trigger actions such as fully customizable email, export to file, message box,
sound, write to database, write to event log, forward to syslog, system tray
message, SMS notification, and start a process.
Automatic Report Generation
Create scheduled web and email reports that contain specific entries, for
example, receive a daily email that contains critical application information
contained within its service log.
User Interface
Text Log Monitor includes a text log viewer that enables users to view,
search, filter and tail large text files replacing popular command-line text
file parsing tools enabling efficient and repeatable log analysis.
Key Features
- Monitor text log files and fire various actions and alerts.
- Archive specific log entries to either a file server, SQL Server or MySQL.
- Analyze large log files quickly while only using minimal resources.
- Specify complex filters & search criteria using regular expressions.
- Consolidate logs by exporting entire or filtered logs to user defined SQL Server or MySQL tables or to one of the following file formats: CSV, HTML, TEXT, and XML.
- Forward filtered logs to your Syslog server
- Raise custom detailed and PDA friendly email alerts
- Supports SMTP authentication
- Single installation monitors entire network
- No installation requirements on managed computers
Architecture
TLM consists of three major components:
The User Interface. The user interface is used to configure the logs to monitor, configure the reports to generate, and view, tail, search, and filter log files.
The Windows Service. The service monitor files and generates scheduled reports. When changes are made to a file being monitored, the changes are parsed, all assigned filters are executed, actions completed, and alerts fired.
The Tray Icon. The tray icon is responsible for firing user interface dependent alerts (message box, sound, system tray popup, etc.) including application status.