Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYX-h4-dpM (average quality)

Screenshots: 1 2 3

UPDATE - 0.9.2 Released

This is a small update to fix an apache.log parsing bug (couldn't parse logs that had the 'remote host' field populated), as well as a few build/packaging issues.

Requirements

The display is rendered using OpenGL and requires a 3D accelerated video card to run.

An example access log is included.

Example Command Lines

logstalgia /var/log/apache/access.log

Watch a log file from in a window, using the default groups.

tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log | logstalgia -

Watch the log in real time as new requests come in (requires tail). Note that ’-’ at the end is required for logstalgia to know it needs to read from STDIN.

ssh user@yourserver.com tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log | logstalgia -g "Ad Clicks,/adclick.php,30" -

Watching the log in realtime again, but this time tailing a log from a remote location over ssh. -g groups together URLs requested containing the string ’/adclick.php’ under the heading ’Ad Clicks’.

NOTE: tailing remote logs is not currently recommended on the Windows version due to buffering issues.