Take control of your logs with Greylog2!

Has this ever happened to you? You hear about some problem on your production system, and have to troll though multiple logs on multiple machines to figure out what's going on? Well, no more. With Greylog2, you can “Manage your logs in the dark and have lasers going and make it look like you're from space.” Greylog2 is a powerful, open source solution that will help you avoid that painful search for events in your logs.

Logs. We don't think about them (much), unless there is a problem. But there is a lot of power locked up in those files. Imagine if you had a way to harness that power and use it for alerting, analytics, monitoring and searching. Wouldn't that be useful? Greylog2 aims to give you that ability by collecting and indexing your logs in order to give you a power platform to mine that data. Oh, and it has a cool web interface and to make it easy.

In this session, we'll learn about Greylog2, how to set up and some example uses. We'll also cover alternatives, both open source and commercial.

About Jerry Gulla

Jerry Gulla a senior development manager at Sonos, helping to fulfill their mission to “fill every home with music.” Previously we was the Architect for SaveLocal.com from Constant Contact - Massachusetts‘ largest SaaS company. He fell in love with hacking both hardware and software more than 20 years ago after getting his first computer, a TRS-80 Model I. He’s worked at companies large and small, including Sun/Javasoft, as well as several small startups. Jerry is passionate about technology and has developed software for everything from the simulator for the B-2 stealth bomber all the way to HTML5 applications for modern smartphones.

His latest interests brings him into the mobile web as well as the world of alternative languages on the JVM, where he’s leveraging the power of dynamic languages and modern frameworks to rapidly deliver new applications for both mobile devices and the desktop.

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