{"id":14,"date":"2005-12-12T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-12-12T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T22:48:00","slug":"tools-for-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/tools-for-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted on Focus-IDS, loganalysis and the <a href=\"http:\/\/idug.crytpojail.net\">idug<\/a> mailinglists to ask about what people are using to visualize their log files. Here is a summary of answers I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the answers was Excel. Well, why not.\n<\/li>\n<li>Perl and MySQL, but completely manual approach.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>A paper on some techniques. 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