Hi all -
Many list readers - not to mention folks who aren't
subscribed to this list
- have commented on the fact that the Log Analysis Web site
seems to have
fallen into hibernation. Marcus and I have also noticed that
meaty
discussions on the list are less and less frequent than they
were several
years ago.
It's unlikely that this slump is due to the fact that
everyone's figured out
what to do with their logs.
I've certainly got lots of reasons for why I'm not as
involved with it as I
was in 2004, primarily related to changes in my job focus
and (mostly
negative) changes in my health. At the moment, I have a
mailbox bulging with
site updates, at which I stare guiltily at least twice a
week, and a list
moderation queue almost entirely filled with spam, this
week's discussion of
data base auditing notwithstanding.
After much discussion, review of the much-evolved
"enterprise log
management" space (please substitute your own favorite
description for
commercial products that do the things we're all trying to
do with our
logs), and my experience in working with the Patch
Management mailing list
(which has maintained its vendor neutrality despite being
sponsored by
Shavlik, one of the patch management product vendors) Marcus
and I have
entered into a partnership with Splunk for the support and
management of
this mailing list and loganalysis.org.
This decision was not made lightly, and on my part at least
is mostly based
on Splunk's determinimation to build a publicly-available
knowledge base for
log messages and end-to-end event log management. Those of
you who were here
in the early days will remember that that has always been
one of my goals
for loganalysis.org; but as it turned out, we didn't have
the time or
resources to devote to building it a community exchange and
database. My
discussions with Splunk - and their dedication to a
"community commons" type
of arrangement for Splunkbase - convinced me that the
partnership will
benefit everyone involved.
Splunk has acquired both loganalysis.org and this list.
Within the next few
days, we will be migrating the mailing list from my
shmoo.com listserver to
their dedicated loganalysis.org list serv installation. If
you are currently
subscribed, you don't need to make any changes - we're just
migrating the
list of subscribers directly from the old to the new server.
The list will
now have the address loganalysis loganalysis.org (which
probably should have
happened years ago).
I will maintain the server at the old address for a while,
in order to
capture any genuine posts to the list which accidentally get
sent to the
wrong address. I will remain a moderator; Dee-Ann LeBlanc,
the content
manager for SplunkBase, is my moderator-in-training; and
depending on how
things go we may recruit another external expert to assist.
We will continue
to moderate the list in the same fashion I've done since its
inception; the
discussions will remain vendor neutral, and all discussions
of particular
commercial and open source products will emphasize the
technical
capabilities of the applications, as well as "real
world" experience from
list members.
The loganalysis.org site is being maintained independently
from Splunkbase,
at least for the foreseeable future, and I may be contacting
the list for
assistance with its maintenance at some point in the next
couple of weeks.
It seems to me that I'd save myself a lot of time (and
subsequent guilt) if
we morphed it into a Wiki, an option which didn't really
exist when Marcus
and I first set things up.
Please feel free to contact me off-list if you have
questions or concerns
about this change. My access to email is somewhat
intermittent, because of a
family health crisis, but I will make every reasonable
effort to respond to
messages in a timely fashion.
As we make the transition to the new server, we may send out
one or two test
messages. These will be marked as such in the subject line;
please disregard
them.
Thanks very much for your ongoing support of this list.
cheers -- tbird
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