Corner Bowl Log Manager
Real-Time Text Log File Monitoring
Corner Bowl Log Manager is a log management tool that provides System Administrators
with the ability to real-time and on-demand monitor, filter, alert, consolidate,
archive, schedule web and email reports and tail critical operating system
and application log files.
Real-Time Text Log File Viewer
Tail text log files in real-time using our real-time Text Log File viewer.
Limit the entries in the viewer by applying a filter.
For example, limit the view to all entries that contain the word 'error'.
Delimited and Non-Delimited
Supports both delimited and non-delimited text log files. Delimited files
follow a specific format enabling programmatic parsing over multiple lines,
for example, SQL Server log files. Delimited files are read line by line until the
next entry delimiter is reached. Once reached, all lines are concatenated
together to form an entry. Non-delimited files do not follow any specific
format making programmatic parsing impossible. Non-delimited log files are
read and filtered line by line.
CSV File Monitor
Corner Bowl Log Manager enables you to monitor the values contained within comma (CSV), tab,
space, and user defined delimited files. Columns can be either numeric or string based. Once a
column value exceeds a filter criteria threshold an alert or action can be fired.
Directory Monitor
Many applications create log files using a date driven naming mechanism.
Text Log Monitor enables you to monitor files within a directory
Corner Bowl Log Manager enables you to monitor files within a directory that match user defined file name masks such <yyMMdd>.txt and *.log.
When a new file is detected, the service automatically starts monitoring the file contents.
Real-Time Subscription and Polling Support
Many applications keep a handle open to their log files causing real-time subscriptions to lag.
Our real-time text log file monitor includes a polling option that can execute as frequently as every second or as infrequent as once a day.
The polling option saves the last know position in the file and quickly advances to that position prior to reading any data optimizing the read operation.
Filters and Frequency Rules
Create and apply simple filters or complex regular expression driven filters that pick out entries of interest.
Our real-time monitors support frequency rules that enable you to get notified when a specific error occurs multiple times over a period of time or does not occur within a period of time.
For example:
- Get notified when an error occurs 3 times within an hour.
- Get notified when a successful message is missing from a text log file.
Alerts, Notifications and Actions
Corner Bowl Log Manager offers a wide range of alerts and actions including:
- Send a fully customizable email
- Send SNMP traps
- Send a page via an SMS gateway
- Write to a database table
- Write to a file (CSV, HTML, TXT, XML)
- Forward to another Event Log
- Forward to another Syslog server
- Start a background or interactive process
- Display a message box or tray popup
- Play a sound
Avoid getting spammed with alerts by configuring your real-time Event Log monitors to limit the number of alerts over time.
For example, receive no more than 5 alerts per hour.
Maintenance Window Support
If you have scheduled maintenance windows you don't want to receive alerts during you can
configure your real-time text log file monitors to shutdown or, if using frequency rules,
suspend alerting while continuing to apply text log file entries to your frequency rules.