CLP (Compressed Log Processor) is an end-to-end log management system from YScope designed to reduce the storage footprint of large log collections while retaining practical access to the information they contain.

It is particularly suited to environments generating substantial quantities of machine-produced data, where retaining conventional text logs can consume significant storage. CLP combines compression, search, analytics and viewing rather than treating compression simply as an archival step. Its architecture also supports logging pipelines that encode data before it reaches long-term storage, making it applicable to both historical collections and continuously generated logs.

This is free and open source software.

• Handles both structured JSON logs and unstructured free-text logs.
• Searches compressed log archives without first decompressing their contents.
• Provides an index-less approach to storing and querying log data.
• Includes web interfaces for searching and viewing stored logs.
• Provides logging libraries that compress messages in real time.
• Supports integrations with Python and Java logging environments.
• Uses a purpose-built intermediate representation for compact log storage and transmission.
• Supports further compression of intermediate-representation data into searchable archives.
• Offers filtering of compressed logs according to information such as log severity.
• Includes libraries for analyzing compressed intermediate-representation data from Python and Go applications.
• Provides a custom pushdown-automata-based parser for recognizing structure in log messages.
• Supports distributed compression and search deployments.
• Provides datasets and tooling for evaluating compression and query behaviour.

Website: github.com/y-scope/clp
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Developer: YScope
License: Apache License 2.0

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