Corner Bowl Text Log Monitor 2022

Monitor IIS, W3C, CSV and any Text-Based Application Log File

• IIS, W3C and CSV files are programmatically parsed, data types calculated and column definitions automatically created.
• Multi-line delimited files are read line by line until the next end-of-entry or entry delimiter is reached. Once reached, all lines are concatenated together to form the complete original entry. Users can define a wide range of entry delimiter criteria including date and time rules.
• Most common are non-delimited files. These files do not follow a pattern and are read and filtered one line at a time.

Monitor Rolling Log Files

• Many applications create log files using a numeric or date driven naming mechanism. Text Log Monitor enables you to dynamically monitor these files using user defined filename search criteria which includes date and time based criteria (e.g. *.txt and u_ex<yyyyMMdd>.log).

Text Log Consolidation

• Consolidate your log files by centrally saving and backing up your text and application log entries to either Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or SQLite.
• Use regular expressions and our W3C/CSV parser to parse attribute value pairs to their native data types then save to your RDBMS for internal and external analysis (e.g. integer, decimal and date/time).
• Parse Linux Audit log files and extract attribute value pairs.
• Use our Log Entry Retention Policy Template to automatically delete old log entries no longer required for compliance.

Text Log File Backup

• Centrally save, backup, zip, encrypt and digitally sign text and application logs files in their native format.
• Use our Directory Cleaner Template to automatically delete old event log file backups no longer required for compliance.

Text Log Monitor

• Real-time monitor or schedule monitor any text-based application log file.
• Use regular expressions and our W3C/CSV parser to parse attribute value pairs to their native data types for use in filters (e.g. integer, decimal and date/time).
• Parse Linux Audit log files and extract attribute value pairs.
• Create Complex Filter Criteria with support for any data type.
• Apply frequency rules (e.g. Get notified when an error occurs 3 times within 5 minutes).
• Includes maintenance schedule rules.

Text Log Entry Retention Policy

• Configure how long to retain text log entries in the log databases (e.g. Archive entries older than 30 days and remove entries older than 90 days).
• Schedule and manually remove text log entries no longer required for analysis and compliance.

Text Log Analyzer

• Watch text logs in real-time.
• Page through large log files, search, highlight, view frequencies, mark entries and export result sets.
• Group and sort log entries using complex regular expression driven attribute value search criteria.
• Create complex filters from messages.

Online Documentation

Schedule Analysis and Compliance Reports

• Schedule daily analysis reports that scan, filter, export and email specific consolidated text log entries.
• Run interactive compliance reports on-demand.