README

LogCluster 0.10

Introduction

LogCluster is a clustering tool which mines line patterns from textual event logs, so that each pattern represents a detected cluster. LogCluster has been written in Perl and has been tested on Linux, but it should run on any platform with a recent Perl distribution. It requires Getopt::Long, Digest::MD5 Perl and Storable modules which are included in the standard Perl installation on Linux.

Availability and licensing

LogCluster is available from https://ristov.github.io/logcluster, and is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2 (see the file COPYING).

Installation

After unpacking the source tarball, copy the logcluster.pl program to appropriate directory (e.g., /usr/local/bin).

Help on usage

Execute 'logcluster.pl --help' for seeing detailed help on usage and command line options.

Author

Risto Vaarandi (firstname d0t lastname at gmail d0t c0m)