I have done a lot of processing of performance logs from UNIX/ Linux systems using vmstat,iostat, process accounting, etc. R is very useful in this area. Is this what you are trying to process?
Sent from my iPad On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:43, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <youngestachie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought mailing lists are very professional and filled with boring people. > But hey, R mailing list is pure fun and has lots of humour elements ;) So > yeah, making it clear, logs as in the text dump spit out by your software > applications, servers and network elements. > > Let me add to my query. This is for a college project. My task is to to parse > logs into the system and then extract some valuable information out of it, > which is not obviously visible/obtainable. The logs can be of any standard > format. > > Logstash is one typical open source SIEM alternative to splunk and the likes. > But I just wanted to do something out of R, so that it is unique and even > more fun with graphs. So are there any typical use cases or atleast has some > tried to churn out third dimensional reports using R. Some pointers would > help. > > Hopefully I needn't go to a sawmill to process all these logs :( > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:47 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > those were definitely different 'logs' than I was thinking about. > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 18:41 , jim holtman wrote: > > > >> what type of logs are you trying to process? > > > > Oregon pine? > > > >> what is their format? > > > > Cylindrical? > > > >> what information do you want from them? > > > > Tensile strength? > > > > > > ;-) > > > > (Or: Base-10, 5-digit mantissa, geometric mean) > > > >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy > >> <youngestachie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> Need some suggestions on interesting use cases with R in the > >>> field of log processing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> With Thanks and Regards, > >>> Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, > >>> India, > >>> +91 9626975420 > >>> > >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jim Holtman > >> Data Munger Guru > >> > >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > >> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > > Phone: (+45)38153501 > > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > > > -- > With Thanks and Regards, > Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, > Engineer Trainee, > Zoho Corporation. > +91 9626975420 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
