Text Log Monitor 2008 - Real-Time Log Monitoring Tool

Text Log Monitor provides Systems Administrators the ability to monitor, filter, alert, archive, schedule web and email reports, and tail critical operating system and application logs.

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, syslog 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.

Directory Monitor

Many applications create log files using a random or a date driven naming mechanism. Text Log Monitor enables you to monitor files within a directory that match user defined file name masks such as *.txt and *.log. When a new file is detected, Text Log Monitor automatically starts monitoring the file contents.

Advanced Filtering

Text Log Monitor’s powerful filtering searches through text logs allowing you to pin point critical entries using simple or complex regular expression driven filters.

Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley may require your organization archive critical text log files for future reference and accountability. Text Log Monitor will archive your logs in their entirety or as a sub-set to a central SQL Server or MySQL database as well as to CSV, HTML, TXT, or XML files.

Alerts, Notifications, and Actions

Trigger actions such as fully customizable email, export to file, message box, sound, write to database, write to event log, forward to syslog, system tray message, or SMS notification.

Automatic Report Generation

Create scheduled web and email reports that contain specific entries, for example, receive a daily email that contains critical application information contained within its service log.

User Interface

The Text Log Monitor user interface enables users to view, search, filter and tail large text files replacing popular command-line text file parsing tools.

Key Features

  • Monitor text log files and fire various alerts
  • Archive specific log entries to either a file server , SQL Server or MySQL.
  • View large text files quickly while only using minimal resources.
  • Specify complex filters & search criteria using regular expressions.
  • Export filtered logs to user defined SQL Server or MySQL tables or to one of the following file formats: CSV, HTML, TEXT, and XML.
  • Forward filtered text logs to your Syslog server
  • Raise custom detailed and PDA friendly email alerts
  • Supports SMTP authentication
  • Single installation monitors entire network
  • No installation requirements on managed computers

Architecture

TLM consists of three major components:

The User Interface. The user interface is used to configure the logs to monitor, configure the reports to generate, and view, tail, search, and filter log files.

The Windows Service. The service monitor files and generates scheduled reports. When changes are made to a file being monitored, the changes are parsed, all assigned filters are executed, actions completed, and alerts fired.

The Tray Icon. The tray icon is responsible for firing user interface dependent alerts (message box, sound, system tray popup, etc.) including application status.

Priced Competitively

Network monitoring products are typically very expensive, however; monitoring 50 log files only costs $149.95 (USD) and monitoring an unlimited number of log files only costs $199.95 (USD). Click here for detailed licensing and pricing information.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Server 2003, or Windows 2000.

Memory

512 MBs of available memory, 2 GBs suggested for large networks.

.Net Framework 2.0

The installation detects if .Net Framework 2.0 is already installed. If not, the framework is automatically downloaded from Microsoft and then installed.

Domain administrator account credentials

To access remote logs from the user interface, your login must have domain administrator rights. When scheduling the service to monitor and filter remote logs, the service must be run with domain administrator rights. The first time the application is run, you will be prompted to assign domain administrator rights to the service.

Our Customers

Corner Bowl Software has sold software to many small and large companies, not for profit organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies throughout the world. Here are just a few: Microsoft, NASA, Network General, Northrop Grumman, and many more. Click here to see a few more.