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I have many devices from which I want to get logs using a syslog server hosted on my iMac.

To get in touch with logs and analyse them, I am looking for a good syslog viewer for mac which have the following functionalities :

color log by level
stats & graphs
send mail and alert

Mac OS X Logs. You can configure your Mac OS X to send system to logs to Loggly. We use fluentd to send the OS X system log over our HTTP/S endpoint. This is because OS X has an older syslog daemon that does not support the newer RFC 5424 format that Loggly requires. Kiwi is a syslog server utility from SolarWinds. The package costs $295, but there is a free version.You can use the system for free to monitor event logs and messages from up to five devices.

I tried the common logs viewers (console, SU =>https://superuser.com/questions/320575/mac-os-x-logfile-viewer) but the two last functionalities I look for are not supported by them. It exists loggly.com but only on cloud version and logmx but which exist only in free version without stats.

Has someone any idea of a good syslog viewer (opensource / free if possible) which had these functions for mac ?

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At last, one developer is making both tools you seek.

Howard Oakley has beta versions of his programs at https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/ and blogs regularly about how to use these and explore the new log archive formats on macOS / iOS / tvOS / watchOS

His downloads page has two apps of interest (use the left downloads link as the product versions below are beta and may not be current in a day or week):

Consolation - an alternative console browser
Woodpile - a tool to count / bin / analyze patterns of logging

If you picked one blog post of his to look at regarding logging, I would start here:

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