🔍 log-watcher.sh

A beginner-friendly Bash script that scans a log file for common failure keywords like error, fail, and timeout, then saves a timestamped report in the reports/ folder.

This tool is ideal for system admins, devs, or anyone learning Bash and log analysis.

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🚀 Features

• 🔎 Scans .log files for critical keywords
• 📊 Counts how many times each keyword appears
• 🕒 Saves detailed, timestamped reports to reports/
• 💡 Beginner-friendly and easy to customize
• 🧪 Sample log file included for testing

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🧰 How to Use

✅ Output will be saved in the reports/ folder as:

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report_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.txt

📁 Repo Structure
perl
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log-watcher-bash/
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├── log-watcher.sh         # The main Bash script
├── sample.log             # Sample log file for testing
├── reports/               # Folder where reports are saved
├── README.md              # You’re reading it

🧪 Sample Output

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Log Analysis Report - 2025-06-25
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error: 3
fail: 1
timeout: 2

🚀 Future Ideas
 - Accept log file as argument (./log-watcher.sh mylog.log)
 - Add keyword customisation
 - Email or Slack alerts for high error count
 - Add colored CLI output

👨🏾‍💻 Author
Kepha Sitati
AWS Cloud • Bash Scripting • Systems Integration