Compare Error logs across service fleet, find unique errors

Posted by neuroelectronic on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by neuroelectronic
Published on 2011-01-06T00:31:19Z Indexed on 2011/01/06 0:56 UTC
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I'm looking for a tool where I can list the servers to check, the location of the file and it would return a list of the most common errors across those servers (say like 2 or 3 servers for report brevity) and get a report something like this

Server.A     Server.B     Server.C
--------     --------     --------
42 error.X   39 error.X   61 error.X
21 error.Y   7  error.Y   5  error.A
17 error.B   6  error.A   4  error.Y
4  error.A   2  error.R   3  error.S
3  error.R   1  error.S   1  error.R

Of course, excluding timestamps and other error details and just grepping out the common sub-strings and listing them like so. I'd be able to look at the table and see that error.B is unique to Server.A and conclude that there is something up with Server.A. Does something like this already exist? Is this something I'll have to code myself?

I'm not necessarily looking for this specific report, just the functionality to find unique errors across a set of error logs.

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