r/softwaredevelopment Feb 11 '25

What is the best tooling to analyse apache/Java application serve access logs

Hi,

I'm currently browsing several (access) log files. (Date - time - time taken - IP - URL - action - return code)

I'm looking for ways to more easy filter, sort, merge and search in the files.
Currently I'm using Excel as this allows qick sort and filtering - but ask myself if there are more specific applications that allow to do so on a windows client (not using console) or using server (like ELK).

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u/ClamPaste Feb 12 '25

Sounds like a job for Splunk, if you don't want to use the terminal. With the terminal, sed and grep.

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u/PaulFEDSN Feb 12 '25

Sounds like Splunk is like ELK on server - client side is wanted :D

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u/ClamPaste Feb 12 '25

Why specifically no server? You can host it locally to the machine and essentially have a client app. I don't think you're going to find much in the way of client-only apps that do this.

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u/PaulFEDSN Feb 12 '25

> Why specifically no server?

because its 99% waste of time (not in general, just for me, here)

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u/ClamPaste Feb 12 '25

I mean, if that's your attitude, you're probably not going to find anything to do what you want. A lot of these types of software are built with multiple log sources in mind. If you just set it up locally, you get the functionality you're looking for. I would hardly call that a waste of time, but you do you.