Octopussy
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The facts
Each one read from Octopussy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alerts
- Alerts can be sent by email, Jabber instant messaging, Nagios NSCA, and Zabbix_sender.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Architecture maps
- The product can create maps to show an architecture.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom logs
- A wizard helps users create messages and services for unrecognized logs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Directory support
- LDAP is supported for Octopussy users and contacts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Interface
- The interface and reports are themable.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The interface supports multiple languages, with flags shown for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, and Turkish.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Latest listed release
- The project's GitHub repository lists version 1.0.16, released June 2, 2017, as its latest release.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The project's GitHub repository identifies the software as GPL-3.0 licensed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Plugins
- The site lists input and output plugins for reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Octopussy describes itself as an open source log management solution.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Project activity
- The website's news lists a 2021-10-12 notice that the site moved to GitHub Pages and a 2017-06-03 release announcement for version 1.0.16.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Project history
- The site says the source code moved to GitHub in 2013 and bug, feature, support, and patch tickets moved to GitHub issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Release history
- The latest release listed on the site is Octopussy v1.0.16, dated 2017-06-03.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reporting features
- It supports report input and output plugins, scheduled reports, and RRDTool graphs of syslog activity.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reports
- Reports can be exported by email, FTP, and SCP.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Service support
- The site lists support for services including Bind, Cisco routers and switches, Linux, MySQL, Nagios, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Squid, and Windows Snare Agent.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Supported services
- The site lists services including Bind, Cisco devices, Linux, MySQL, Nagios, PostgreSQL, Squid, Windows Snare Agent, and Xen.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Updates
- The site says services, tables, and multilanguage support can be updated online.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2005checked 28 Sep 2026
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