I'm looking for a tool that might handle this nicely.
I have some asterisk log files that are generated by daemontools' multilog. The problem is that daemontools rotates logs every few minutes at the volumes I do so a single call can be scattered across several files. Total files might be a few GB.
Does anyone know a good tool that let us search across multiple files for strings and display them? (along with nearby lines). The basic requirements are to trace a problem call by finding a number or call id and jumping around checking the 10 lines or so on each side of it.
What I've looked at so far: * The team currently use vi which doesn't support multiple files well * I had a look at use multiple search in less but this was pretty slow and didn't seem to work nicely. * logstash and Elasticsearch would probably be the longer team option although there doesn't seem to be a good built-in asterisk filter for grok. * lnav ( http://lnav.org/ ) looks nice but doesn't have support for multilog format and doesn't appear to actually search multiple generations of files. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
