Performance and stability are two important factors for measuring the quality of any software application. Following logging best practice and using the right log analyzer software becomes a key in building a performance intensive and stable software application. Log files come in very handy for debugging & fixing majority of the application issues. Equally important is the use of an effective tool for analyzing and monitoring the log files. Now we will be looking at one such tool – Logmatic.io, which can help us to analyze or manage the log file more effectively.
What is Logmatic.io ?
Logmatic.io is a cloud based log analyzer which can federate all the logs & machine events into your browser. It could help the team to monitor the real time activity by giving them meaningful insights on whats happening right now. Logmatic is programming language agnostic. So, we can use this tool to analyze the logs irrespective of the programming language used for creating the log files.
Logmatic Key Features
1. Quick & Easy Set Up
You can centralize all your log file analysis & monitoring without installing any additional agents or software’s on your servers. You need to send all your log files or machine events to Logmatic. That is all you need to do. The tool takes care of the rest by running entirely on the cloud.
2. Powerful Visualization & Analysis
Once the raw log data is fed, the tool can quickly recognize the patterns to give us structured & meaningful data with a rich visualization. The Logmatic software can automatically recognize & analyze the Apache access, Nginx, Syslogs and JSON events to create a global & unified view of the system. The tool lets you to create awesome dynamic dashboards & share them with your team.
3. Real time Alerting
The Logmatic.io software can help us to detect deviations and abnormal behaviors . It can send notifications in real time when deviations are detected. Based on the criteria or threshold’s defined by the user, the tool can send real time, hourly, daily & weekly reports through email or slack or PagerDuty or HipChat.
4. External Integration
By using the REST API’s provided, you can push the information provided by Logmatic to CRM’s or BI tools or any other applications. By using the security filter’s provided by the tool, you can even decide the level and scope of information you want to share with others.
