Log Visualization Tools

[Ramki Ramakrishna]

Sorry for the noise: my response was sent to the wrong list in error; 
corrected herewith.

-- ramki

On 8/5/2011 1:28 PM, Ramki Ramakrishna wrote:
> Same here -- i sometimes use an internal homegrown awk script to 
> extract the
> metrics, so they can be massaged into a data file amenable to plotting 
> with gnuplot.
> That script does not take well to the extra output either, so we 
> usually strip out the
> extra output and deal with only the more fundamental metrics only. The 
> extra output
> from the more fancy flags has thus far been consumed only by humans or 
> extracted on an ad-hoc basis into
> spreadsheets and such. This is clearly not a nice state of affairs. I 
> believe there is
> work (or plans?) underway for some kind of logging framework into 
> which the JVM will feed
> its metrics, and hopefully the tooling that consumes those logs will 
> be able to
> deal with all these issues in a more uniform fashion once and for 
> all.... Unfortunately,
> I have no real details of that work, though...
>
> Then there is gchisto which is GC-specific (but which also cannot 
> consume the output
> from the more fancy flags), but that has been placed on the backseat 
> as other issues
> have intervened.
> In general, until GC logging formats are standardized, tools that 
> consume textual
> output from the JVM/GC will tend to break unless changes to these text 
> formats are
> carefully controlled. There has been some talk on and off about trying to
> standardize those formats, but I am not sure about the status of that. 
> May be the
> logging framework mentioned earlier will provide a superstructure from 
> which such
> textual standardization will result naturally.
>
> -- ramki
>
> On 8/5/2011 12:40 PM, Eric Caspole wrote:
>> Sometimes I use HPjmeter for plain Xloggc, but I don't think it can
>> do the fancy extra flags either.
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Matt Fowles wrote:
>>
>>> All~
>>>
>>> What tools do people know of or have for parsing gc logs and
>>> visualizing the results?
>>>
>>> The only thing I can find, GCViewer, (from
>>> http://www.tagtraum.com/gcviewer.html) seems like it has not been
>>> updated for a while and does not parse a lot of more complicated logs
>>> (-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution or -XX:PrintCMSStatistics=1).
>>>
>>> Are there more tools out there?  Are there in house tools that people
>>> are willing to share?
>>>
>>> Matt
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