GlTail by Erlend Simonsen mr@fudgie.org http://www.fudgie.org

Description:

Real-time view of server traffic and events using OpenGL and SSH.

Install:

• gem install gltail
• On Ubuntu:
  • sudo aptitude build-dep libopengl-ruby

Features:

• Real-Time OpenGL view
• Multiple logfiles on multiple servers
• Configurable layout
• Multiple logfile parsers (Apache Combined, Rails, IIS, Postfix/spamd/clamd, Nginx, Squid, PostgreSQL, PureFTPD, MySQL, TShark, qmail/vmpop3d)
• Custom events
• Show rate, total or average
• If you can 'tail' it, you can visualize it
• Written in Ruby using net-ssh & libopengl-ruby
• Free! gss

Running:

  gl_tail --help
  gl_tail --new gl_tail.yaml
  gl_tail

Options: You can press f while running to toggle the attempted frames per second. Or b to change default blob type, and space to toggle bouncing.

To enable fullscreen mode, press shift + f, or set fullscreen: true in the config section of your config.yaml.

Requirements:

• rubygems 0.9.4
• opengl 0.7.0.pre1
• net-ssh 1.1.2
• opengl/ruby development packages (ruby1.8-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglut3-dev)
• heroku command line tools (for using Heroku as a source)