FIX logs analyzer. Part I.

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FIX Log Analyzers (FIX Grep and FIX Eye) are the small tools, which were started for internal use only, developed with the lapse of time and finally grew up to the powerful (but still lightweight) product suit.

BTW Today there is a free demo version of FIX Eye available for download from official B2BITS web site.


History
Originally the main purpose of the utility was making testers' life easier. Namely:

• Help FIX  newbies read and understand FIX logs
• Save time for searching orders and related messages in logs to analyse order life-cycle

Additional requirements were:

• Deal with any free-form text file (often there is a need to extract messages from log files with a lot of debug info)
• Deal with multiple files (in most cases in and out messages are stored in multiple files, also data for different sessions can be in different files)
• Deal with archives (log files grow fast so there is a need to take into account housekeeping procedures normally performed at the end of the day)