Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:54:05 +0100
From: Daniël W. Crompton <daniel.crompton@...il.com>
To: "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" <cal.leeming@...plicitymedialtd.co.uk>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: High performance exception/traceback
	reporting system

Hi Cal,

I've been thinking of this issue over the weekend and imagined one of the
solutions to have a messaging system which accepted inputs from different
languages and transforms these into a report which can be put into a bug
reporting tool which could use hashes to fingerprint the bugs so you can see
which are the errors which are causing the most problems.

Sounds like a good plugin for a SIEM too.

D.


On 13 February 2011 17:50, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming@...plicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

> 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@...il.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@...plicitymedialtd.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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>>
>>
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