I recently posted on Focus-IDS, loganalysis and the idug mailinglists to ask about what people are using to visualize their log files. Here is a summary of answers I got:

• One of the answers was Excel. Well, why not.
• Perl and MySQL, but completely manual approach.
• A paper on some techniques. I have not read it yet, but will post my comments when I did so: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~chris2d/papers/HPC_Analytics_Final.pdf

I got a couple more responses, but I want to verify and see what they are about first before I post them. Stay put.

I just tryed a mutli-dimensional data visualization tool. Took me a bit to get the Java OpenGL running and just to find that it’s not _that_ cool. Oh well, here it is: xmdv.

I am looking for tools that people are using to visualize security data. I assume everyone is using afterglow, but what other tools are you using?