Exactly Jim! I am getting some inspiration from papers like these. http://www.cs.dal.ca/sites/default/files/technical_reports/CS-2011-04.pdf
In short, I am trying to do a correlation across logs, rather than just visualizing them. On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Jim Holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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.
