Framework for Monitoring logs of an application

Question

hello

I am working on writing an web application which will be monitoring an java process which moves files from one location to another. The monitoring application needs to do following things

• Monitor log files

• View the content of moved files

Is there any opensource framework which provides monitoring capabilities over logging.

I am building this application in java.

Thanks

Answer 1

Well, logging frameworks are numerous

• log4j
• java.util.logging
• SLF4J

But log viewing applications are less frequent. I think the one application that can easily show you the logs (but not the file content, unless you write it to logs) is Chainsaw.

Answer 2

You might want to take a look at Java-Logging.com which has a list of the most popular java logging and monitoring tools. If open source is a requirement, Chainsaw as Riduidel mentioned will probably come in handy. If a professional tool would also work for you, you could also check out our logging tool SmartInspect. SmartInspect comes with a tracing and monitoring viewer application: