Re: High performance exception/traceback reporting system

["Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" <cal.leeming () simplicitymedialtd co uk>]

Hi,

I haven't started development on this yet, I will post the location of the
project once I've begun (hopefully next week!)

Cal

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Daniël W. Crompton <
daniel.crompton () gmail com> wrote:

> Is there any place I can retrieve the code?
>
> D.
>
>
> On 11 February 2011 18:17, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
> cal.leeming () simplicitymedialtd co uk> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > For the last two years, I've been meaning to write a reporting server
> > which allows webapps to post their exception tracebacks, which are then
> > viewable from a centralized location. After having Thunderbird corrupt my
> > mailbox due to over 250 thousand debug emails, this project has now been
> > given a bit more priority ;)
> >
> > The current prototype stores basic exception information (the file path,
> > line number, exception type, exception value, originating webapp, node
> > hostname etc) in the database, and the traceback details are then
> > serialized, dumped into a file, and the path to that file stored against the
> > row. A web interface then allows you to browse through these exceptions
> > (currently via Django admin), and view them using the same prettified
> > exception page which it shows for actual exceptions. This prettified page
> > also shows the variables within each frame in the stack, which is very
> > handy!
> >
> > From a developers point of view, this makes life extremely easy, because
> > all your webapps report to a single place, you can do sphinx searches,
> > alerts, custom reports etc, and it looks pretty lol.
> >
> > The entire thing is going to be open source, and will eventually be a
> > one-click install with a set up page etc.
> >
> > Here are some of the features I am planning on adding, but if anyone has
> > any suggestions as to what they would like to see in this, please feel free
> > to mention them!
> >
> >    - Tracebacks can be sent to the server primarily via POST request, but
> >    custom plugins will allow it to pull in via other means (such as mail
> >    attachments)
> >    - Alerts can be given different classifications (for example, you
> >    could configure specific nodes, webapps, or exception types to alert you via
> >    BulkSMS)
> >    - Prettified traceback page should initially support Python/PHP, other
> >    languages can be added as and when.
> >    - Basic authentication / IP restrictions for the admin login
> >    - Authentication support for when the tracebacks are POST'd to the
> >    server
> >    - Tar source should pre-package a lightweight nginx/uwsgi/python
> >    environment, so it is self sufficient (this will need to be security
> >    maintained obviously).
> >    - A nice, pretty, easy to use interface, because this just makes
> >    people feel all nice and warm inside ^_^
> >
> > I don't want to go as far as to say that it should be used to collect
> > error_log outputs, I think that would be going a bit too far, the main
> > reason for having a system like this is simply due to the sheer amount of
> > information usually contained within a traceback dump, and the Django
> > prettifier makes it so much easier to debug with!
> >
> > Thoughts/criticisms welcome!
> >
> > Cal
> >
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