Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:50:23 +0000
From: "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]"
	<cal.leeming@...plicitymedialtd.co.uk>
To: Daniël W. Crompton <daniel.crompton@...il.com>, 
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: High performance exception/traceback
	reporting system

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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