So I know this is a gratuitous attempt at getting into the beta for Xobni but I figured I’d drop the referral link in here for the hell of it:
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Looks to be an interesting product (or potential product). The question is how well it works in practice.
It reminds me of Splunk which is a great product if you’re trying to manage a lot of log files from apps and Webs. I’d been trying it at work on some web logs but without much direction so it was more “cool” than “wow”. Then, I needed to parse some app logs for an app across two days (2 servers x 2 days x about 10MB each log file). Dropped it in my watch folder and was narrowing down the entries I wanted in seconds. More “wow” this time around. You can click on key words and Splunk will filter the results based on that. You can set up reports and the like to extract out things like errors and have it e-mail you. My big problem with it is the lack of an easy exporter (you have to do it via the command line prompt). Maybe the next version?
