Articles tagged with: Mining Unstructured Data

07 February 2012

How To Create A Logfile Viewer in 15 minutes

Written by Alexander Golde, Posted in Blog

Last week I had to use a customers tool which starts RTSP sessions in a video on demand network. This tool dumped its logging information into a text file which I had to analyze after each run. The logfile got bigger and bigger and it became more and more inconvinient to find the interessting places. And if that wasn't enough, the log contained a lot of unuseful message lines ( at least for my job ).
To get an idea about the amount of data : the tool produced ~ 500 lines per second.

So I decided to create a little FlowSheet which should support me a little bit.

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