Darian Shimy » analytics http://www.darianshimy.com Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:06:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Realtime Log Visualization http://www.darianshimy.com/2009/12/realtime-log-visualization/ http://www.darianshimy.com/2009/12/realtime-log-visualization/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:00:16 +0000 Darian Shimy http://www.darianshimy.com/?p=464 Continue reading →]]> Erlend Simonsen put out a program called gltail that creates a graphical representation of your log files.

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I saw this a long time ago, but last night I finally started playing with it. It works quite well. I needed to make a small change to support an SSH gateway which you can get here: http://github.com/dshimy/gltail.  On OS X, getting started was simple:

$ git clone git://github.com/dshimy/gltail.git
$ sudo gem install ruby-opengl file-tail

If you want the dots to bump each other, you need to install the Chipmunk physics library:

$ cd vendor/Chipmunk-4.1.0/ruby
$ ruby extconf.rb
$ sudo make install

Beyond that, tweak the configuration file and enjoy.

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