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Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

Feb 18, 2021 · 2 min read · logs vmware ·
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I recently ran into a peculiar issue after upgrading my vRealize Automation homelab to the new 8.3 release, and the error message displayed in the UI didn't give me a whole lot of information to work with: I connected to the vRA appliance to try to find the relevant log excerpt, but doing so isn't all that …

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Finding the most popular IPs in a log file

Sep 13, 2020 · 3 min read · linux shell logs regex ·
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I found myself with a sudden need for parsing a Linux server's logs to figure out which host(s) had been slamming it with an unexpected burst of traffic. Sure, there are proper log analysis tools out there which would undoubtedly make short work of this but none of those were installed on this hardened system. So this …

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