LogViewPlus v3.1.9 is now available with built-in support for FIX audit log parsing. FIX messages are niche, but they provide a great opportunity to showcase how LogViewPlus can handle custom log file formats.

To get the most out of FIX audit logs, we decided to implement a new API - ICustomMessageTemplate. You can implement an ICustomMessageTemplate to create message parsers dynamically through a custom extension. This gives you a great deal of flexibility when determining how individual log entry messages should be parsed.

On the SQL front, we have added a few new SQL functions including PIVOT, HEX and UNHEX. Most exciting is the PIVOT function which allows you to pivot a SQL result set based on a group column, pivot column and value column. The implementation is simple without a lot of configuration options, but we still think it is really helpful when creating advanced reports.

What's next?

Next up, we want to look into ways that we can make it easier to get log files out of existing systems such as Docker and Kubernetes. These are very common deployment tools used by developers and we want to make it easier to access the log files they contain.

Have an idea for a dashbord?  Or maybe you know of a common log file format which is difficult to parse or hard to access?  Let us know - we would love to hear it.

That's it for now. Check out the latest release and let us know what you think!

Toby