Log4Tailer 2.0 released with SSH tailing capabilities

Log4Tailer 2.0 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer/ has just been released. It has been a month of some thought and testing the feasability of including tailing over SSH, and this release provides just that. It will open the door for a range of more features to control remote logs scattered across a network from a single terminal, instead of having multiple terminals or windows opened. As always, the project provides a nice pdf UserGuide explaining the ssh tailing capabilities of log4tailer.

Log4Tailer 1.50

Log4Tailer 1.50 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer provides interesting new features in order to monitor your logs. It’s a dedicated application to monitor the status of your logs regardless if your application provides its own monitoring platform or not. It is helping me a lot and this new release will help sys admins and testers alike.

In this new release, you will be able to specify regexes for every log, log4tailer will be able to update you by email every period of time you specify and lots more.

Log4Tailer 1.45 released

Log4Tailer 1.45 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer/ has a new feature that could be interesting for many testers or engineers when they are tailing multiple logs at a time. It can tail the logs with different colors for each log, making it very easy to differentiate which log you are tailing. For instance, you could be tailing /var/log/messages in red, /var/log/mail.log in green and some other log in yellow. Just specify that in a config file and that’s it. Config file:

/var/log/messages = red

/var/log/mail.log = green

/var/log/otherlog = yellow

Then, just type:

log4tail -c configfile /var/log/messages /var/log/mail.log /var/log/otherlog

PyLazy

PyLazy is an small python app that reports the time you spend using your applications in the computer. I just published it in googlecode and the Python Package index http://code.google.com/p/pylazybreak/.

Log4Tailer 1.42 released

I released Log4Tailer 1.42 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer/ on Monday. It is just a minor release affecting mostly on the final reports once you finish tailing a log. Log4Tailer allows you to tail logs in colors amongst other features. It is very useful for software testers and developers alike. I’ve found myself multiple times tailing logs in black and white using the “Tail” Linux command line, which was a pain for my eyes to try to discern information from thousands of lines. In my career I’ve seen some software testers missing “warnings” or even “error” log4j log traces, missing important information that can lead to a bug, and a long etcetera. Some of the features maybe are not going to be that important, but the core functionality, i.e. tailing with colors is really a killer app if used properly along with top notch terminal managers like Terminator hosted in launchpad https://launchpad.net/terminator. Make your live easier and enjoy .

What do you do in your computer?

I just wrote some days ago a Python program that tells you how do you spend your time with in your computer. Take a look at http://www.jordilin.com/pyhacks. Only works for Linux and requires python.