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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:45:58+00:00

I’m sure this has already been done, but Google isn’t helping me – I’m

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I’m sure this has already been done, but Google isn’t helping me – I’m getting swamped with answers for similar but different problems:

My boss has asked me to find or build a system that will log uses of our kiosk installations. We build kiosks using java, native c++, c#, python and using things like Unity. We saw another company we worked with using a simple system where a post call with data was logged on a remote site to be checked later. The system allowed the application programmer to decide the contents of the message, and was able to allocate it to either debug or release according to the programmer’s wishes.

An example of the log output might be:

[Debug] 28-11-2011 10:10:20 Kiosk1: Pulse
[Debug] 28-11-2011 10:10:25 Kiosk1: Button pressed
[Debug] 28-11-2011 10:10:45 Kiosk1: Widget used
[Debug] 28-11-2011 10:11:20 Kiosk1: Pulse

I looked at log4net/log4j, but that doesn’t seem to be compatible with native c++ or python. I’m probably mistaken there :).

Does anyone know of a system that works like this, or that will otherwise be suitable for logging from such diverse languages? If not, I can write my own easily enough. I just don’t want to have to support it 🙂

Regards,
Steve

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure, but I think what you’re looking for is SPLUNK. This can parse almost every log and display it in a unified manner. It can listen to ports, read log files via polling and parses and indexes anything you throw at any point of time.

    You can use this to set up you’re own multi-language logging server/system. We’ve been using this and it seamlessly works in our distributed environment.

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