Log Analyse

Fast standalone tool to help you make sense of your NGINX access logs. Still work in progress. You need make (build-essential) and go (version 1.11 and over) installed on your computer to build this project. Build by:

git clone git@github.com:jasonrogena/log-analyse.git
cd log-analyse
go build

You can then use the sample config (change accordingly) before running the generated binary:

cp log-analyse.toml.sample log-analyse.toml

Ingest

Generates an SQLite database with extracted NGINX fields from the provided access file. Run using:

./log-analyse ingest one-off <path to log file>

Ingest creates the following tables in the SQLite database:

log_file

Column	Type	Description
uuid	string	Unique identifier for the file in the database
path	string	Path to the log file on the filesystem
no_lines	integer	Number of files in the file when processing started
start_time	datetime	Time processing started on the file
end_time	datetime	Time processing ended on the file

log_line

Column	Type	Description
uuid	string	Unique identifier for the line in the database
line_no	integer	Line number in the log file
value	string	Unprocessed log line text
start_time	datetime	Time processing started on the line
log_file_uuid	string	Unique identifier for parent log file details in log_file

log_field

Column	Type	Description
uuid	string	Unique identifier for the field in the database
field_type	string	Name of NGINX field (e.g x_forwarded_for)
value_type	string	Datatype for value of field. Can be either float or string
value_string	string	Value of field if type is string
value_float	float	Value of filed if type is float
start_time	datetime	Time processing started on field
log_line_uuid	string	Unique identifier for parent log line in log_line