CentOS - Jul 2011 - Log monitoring

Hi all,
Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to
monitor/tune in my iptables rules.

Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like:
- color
- grepping multiple keywords
- some statistic

Thank you
Fajar.

On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to
> monitor/tune in my iptables rules.
>
> Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like:
> - color
> - grepping multiple keywords
> - some statistic
I don't know about any tools for this, but I did want to point out that
grep can handle multiple keywords.

$ tail -f /var/log/messages | grep -e keyword1 -e keyword2 -e keyword3

Also, current versions of grep have the '-P' flag to allow use of Perl
regular expressions for more complex matches.

-- 
Bowie

Same here,

I just recently started using/testing rsyslogd (to mysql [native mysql support
is great])+LogAnalyzer web front end for a central log host. So far its been
working quite well. Worth checking out

Aly

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