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December 13 2009

bartc

Clarity - web app for access to log files

At Shopify we use syslog-ng to have a centralized logging server which collects all the logs from the various machines in our cluster and combines the log files together. We used to give everyone access to this box for log analysis but as we grew this became a bit impractical. To solve this, we created Clarity, which provides a very nice web interface for the two staple tools of log analysis: grep and tail -f.