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Graylog-Ideas.md

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I had a few ideas in how Graylog2 could even more support the user in finding relvant log messages.

Both of them are described below.

Activity Graph

This would be a dotgraph which displays the relative amount of log messages occuring at a given timespan. Here is an example of this kind of graph, which is called dotgraph as far as I know. Github is also using them to dislplay the repository activity.

Beside a default variant with sane defaults the following options would be useful:

  • start for time interval
  • end for time interval
  • interval for each dot Examples: 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Hour, etc.

Regularity Indicator

When browsing log messages there could be an indicator displaying if the log message occured somewhere earlier or not. It would be possible to get this data by analyzing x log messages around this point in time backwards by good intervals (hours, days, weeks, etc.).

There are several options to realize that in the interface.

Possible Problem

I don't really know how unique/similar log messages of different kinds of systems are. Possibly there are not many log messages exactly identic so that might not work so well. A workaround could be to ignore numbers or other appearingly dynamic things when analyzing the log messages.

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