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 <jholtman@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 <
> youngestachiever@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 <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> those were definitely different 'logs' than I was thinking about.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd@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
>> >> <youngestachiever@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.
>> >>>
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