Color your logs with CCZE

Those of us who work with servers or with GNU / Linux In general we know that one of the best sources of information we have to know what happens with our system, are the Logs.

It is rare that a program or service does not have them, and it is always good to have tools that allow us to read this type of information more comfortably.

CCZE exactly what it does is color our logs. Has support for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, apache, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog and many other applications.

En Debian It is installed by opening a terminal and typing:

$ sudo aptitude install ccze

How do we use it?

Very easy. If we put in the terminal, for example:

# tailf /var/log/apache2/access.log

We will have something like this:

Now, if we put:

# tailf /var/log/apache2/access.log | ccze

We obtain as a result:

Much better right? But actually this is not the way to use CCZE. According to Mon of this app, it should be:

# ccze [opción] <log

One of the most interesting options is, for example, the one that helps us better understand the log of Squid. For this we put:

# ccze -C </var/log/squid/access.log

El -C what it does is make the Unix timestamp easy to read. You know, if you want more information about what can be done with CCZE, put in the terminal:

man ccze

We already saw how to use this tool when pinging this post.