Open Source Python Logging Software for Linux

Fail2Ban monitors log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans failure-prone addresses. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address or executes user defined commands. Please see code and download from https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban . SF Fail2ban portal might not be up-to-date

Adminlog provides the command line tool "i" which permits administrators to read, write, and share first person notes about their administrative actions on a server.

Band Saw is a syslog monitoring program for GNOME. It allows the user to setup filters that define which messages should generate alerts. Combined with syslog's remote logging functionality it provides a scalable and easily deployed monitoring solution.

DPytHOS is a means for administrators of large networks to both monitor and manage the servers under their control. DPytHOS is implemented in python and uses a generic database back-end (with MySQL supported and MS-SQL 2000 supported via XML)

Java exception extractor. This utility will parse all files (either plain text or bzipped) and tries to search for various exceptions. It then tries to match exceptions against grouping rules (regexps). It is also able to group unrecognised exceptions.

Kojoney is an easy of use, secure, robust and powerfull Honeypot for the SSH Service written in Python. With the kojoney daemon are distributeds other tools such as kip2country (IP to Country) and kojreport, a tool to generate reports from the log fi

Nuhe is a log monitoring system, which is capable of alarm generation and action when rules are matched against log(s) activity.

An ARP watch daemon for windows (portable to linux but it is already there...) which is able to be run as a service and logs to eventlog so one can collect the logs and react to events.

PootyPedia is a tool to track the hardware in use by a software project. Its client software finds the hardware and reports it, while the server software tracks the reports and keeps them organized in a database.

PyIDS is an intrusion detection system whose aim is to provide concise information to administrators about some parts of the system i.e filesystem checksums, unknown connections to the machine, access control lists of special files, log revision...

py-rrdtool is a Python module provides an interface to RRDTool, the well known graphing/logging tool.

Rxlogd is a receive-only syslog server (collector) that can coexist with sysklogd. It features simplicity, ease of use and a built-in dns cache for high performance.

This project is a python script to abstract S.M.A.R.T. messages from /var/log/messages (from the smartd daemon) into .csv file(s), one for each disk, suitable for graphing.

Snort IDS library for Python

Graphical or terminal-based stopwatch with many user-named lap timers. Save / restore timing results via CSV file; timer "runs" even when application isn't running! Supports lap timer label templates. Hildonized (i.e., also runs on Maemo / Nokia 770).

A tool to visualize interactively huge amounts of eventdata. Uses an innovative hierarchical zoomlens scaling from quarters down to 50 ms.

A system to log and track user logons, logoffs, computer information, and statistics in a Microsoft Windows environment. It includes a client side application (veloapport.exe - intended to be run as a logon and logoff script) and an analyzer (veloapportdetective.py) reporting hardware changes and populates a computer inventory table. The client (veloapport.exe) sends user and machine information to a MySQL database server and VeloApport Detective populates a computer inventory table while also detecting changes and if the system drive is running out of free space.

apt-history logs the changes of /var/lib/dpkg/status when installing, removing, upgrading packages with apt-get.

fwgraph is an attempt to characterize and present network traffic including network devices, QoS, and iptables under Linux.

Lovi is a log file monitoring tool for the K Desktop Environment.

sarplot provides automated graph generation from statistics generated by the sar (system activity recorder) utilitiy. It is intended as a drop-in utility that generates daily and hourly graphs viewable through a web interface.

Sarvant (SAR Visual ANalysis Tool) is a python script that will analyze a sar file (from the sysstat utility, 'sar') and produce graphs using gnuplot of the collected data.

A small and easy-to-install program that will help keep track of script-kiddy-mediated changes to your system.