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logstalgia

NAME

Logstalgia - a web server access log visualization tool

SYNOPSIS

logstalgia [-f] [-WIDTHxHEIGHT] [options] logfile

DESCRIPTION

logstalgia is a visualization tool that replays or streams web server access logs as a retro arcade game simulation.

REQUIREMENTS

logstalgia's display is rendered using OpenGL and requires a 3D accelerated video card to run.

Currently logstalgia supports several access.log formats used by Apache web servers (common/custom format).

As logstalgia is designed to playback logs in real time you will need a log from a fairly busy webserver to achieve interesting results (eg 100s of requests each minute).

OPTIONS

-f

Fullscreen.

-WIDTHxHEIGHT

Set the window size. If -f is also supplied, will attempt to set the video mode to this also.

-b, --background

Background colour in hex.

-x --full-hostnames

Show full request ip/hostname.

-s, --speed

Simulation speed. Defaults to 1 (1 second-per-second).

-u, --update-rate

Page Summary update speed. Defaults to 5 (5 seconds).

-g name,regex,percent[,colour]

Urls matching the given regex will appear under a new section with the given name using the given percentage of the screen. Colour may optionally be supplied in the common hexadecimal format (eg FF0000 for red)

If no groups are supplied the default groups are Images (image files), CSS (.css files) and Scripts (.js files).

If there is enough space remaining a catch-all group of Misc will appear as the last group.

--paddle-mode MODE

Paddle mode (pid, vhost, single).

vhost - separate paddle for each virtual host in the log file.

pid - separate paddle for each process id in the log file.

single - single paddle (the default).

--sync

Begin with the next entry received (implies STDIN).

--start-position POSITION

Begin at some position in the log file (between 0.0 and 1.0).

--stop-position POSITION

Stop at some position.

--no-bounce

No bouncing.

--hide-response-code

Hide response code.

--hide-paddle

Hide paddle.

--disable-progress

Disable the progress bar.

--disable-glow

Disable the glow effect.

--glow-duration

Duration of the glow (between 0.0 and 1.0).

--glow-multiplier

Adjust the amount of glow.

--glow-intensity

Intensity of the glow.

--output-ppm-stream FILE

Write frames as PPM to a file ('-' for STDOUT).

--output-framerate FPS

Framerate of output (used with --output-ppm-stream).

logfile

The path to the access log file to read or '-' if you wish to supply log entries via STDIN.

EXAMPLES

Watch an example Apache access.log using the default settings:

           logstalgia /usr/share/logstalgia/example.log

Watch the live Apache access.log, starting from the most recent batch of entries in the log (requires tail). Note than '-' at the end is required for logstalgia to know it needs to read from STDIN:

           tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | logstalgia -

To follow the log in real time, use the --sync option. This will start reading from the next entry received on STDIN:

           tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | logstalgia --sync

Watch a remote Apache access.log via ssh:

           ssh user@example.com tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log | logstalgia --sync

SUPPORTED APACHE LOG FORMATS

Logstalgia supports the following widely used Apache log formats:

           Common Log Format (CLF)
          
    "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"

           Common Log Format with Virtual Host
          
    "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"

           NCSA extended/combined log format
          
    "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""

           NCSA extended/combined log format with Virtual Host
          
    "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""

The process id (%P), or some other identifier, may be included as an additional field at the end of the entry. This can be used with '--paddle-mode pid' where a separate paddle will be created for each unique value in this field.

CUSTOM LOG FORMAT

Logstalgia now supports a pipe ('|') delimited custom log file format:

           timestamp - unix timestamp of the request date.
           hostname - hostname of the request
           path - path requested
           response_code - the response code from the webserver (eg 200)
           response_size - the size of the response in bytes

The following are optional:

           success - 1 or 0 to indicate if successful
           response_colour - response colour in hexidecial (#FFFFFF) format
           referrer url - the referrer url
           user agent - the user agent
           virtual host - the virtual host (to use with --paddle-mode vhost)
           pid - process id or some other identifier (--paddle-mode pid)

If success or response_colour are not provided, they will be derived from the response_code using the normal HTTP conventions (code < 400 = success).

RECORDING VIDEOS

See the guide on the homepage for examples of recording videos with Logstalgia:

           http://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/wiki/Videos

INTERFACE

The time shown in the top left of the screen is set initially from the first log entry read and is incremented according to the simulation speed (-s).

The counter in the bottom right hand corner shows the number of requests displayed since the start of the current session.

Pressing space at any time will pause/unpause the simulation. While paused you may use the mouse to inspect the detail of individual requests.

Interactive keyboard commands:

           (q) Debug Information
           (c) Displays Logstalgia logo
           (n) Jump forward in time to next log entry.
           (+-) Adjust simulation speed.
           (<>) Adjust time scale.
           (ESC) Quit

AUTHOR

  Written by Andrew Caudwell
 
  Project Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/
 

 

COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (C) 2008 Andrew Caudwell (acaudwell@gmail.com)
 
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.
 
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Catalyst IT (catalyst.net.nz)
 
  For supporting the development and promotion of Logstalgia!