Online Fix Log Checker

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi,

Over the last few months we have developed and been using http://fixlogchecker.com in order to help troubleshooting issues etc.

The service is free, and allows you to view your fix logs easily online. After you have pasted your logs you can then use the filter options to remove messages your not interested in, or just show messages with a certain search term.

Any delimiter should be okay, currently fix 5.0 isnt supported, and we’re looking to provide a simple way to share your logs after you’ve filtered the messages down.

I’m posting here to try and get some feedback on the site, any feature requests, or issues with the site then let me know.

http://fixlogchecker.com

Thanks,
James.

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James,
I’m sure your intentions are good, however use of your tool would seriously violate compliance rules in any sell-side firm I know of, even if the FIX log were to be anonymised before uploading. Anyone thinking of using this tool should take advice from your compliance department first.

Hi,

Over the last few months we have developed and been using http://fixlogchecker.com in order to help troubleshooting issues etc.

The service is free, and allows you to view your fix logs easily online. After you have pasted your logs you can then use the filter options to remove messages your not interested in, or just show messages with a certain search term.

Any delimiter should be okay, currently fix 5.0 isnt supported, and we’re looking to provide a simple way to share your logs after you’ve filtered the messages down.

I’m posting here to try and get some feedback on the site, any feature requests, or issues with the site then let me know.

http://fixlogchecker.com

Thanks,
James.

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[ original email was from John Greenan - john.greenan@alignment-systems.com ]
What James suggested is true for any buy-side of which I am aware.

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What James suggested is true for any buy-side of which I am aware.

or indeed vendors or network providers.

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What James suggested is true for any buy-side of which I am aware.

or indeed vendors or network providers.

I’ve just pushed an update to anonymize the logs before being submitted (via javascript, the Comp ID’s, Account, Username, Password data are replaced with dummy info).

Thanks,
James.

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What James suggested is true for any buy-side of which I am aware.

or indeed vendors or network providers.

I’ve just pushed an update to anonymize the logs before being submitted (via javascript, the Comp ID’s, Account, Username, Password data are replaced with dummy info).

Thanks,
James.

Hi James,

You might think about just processing the log files locally, using javascript - so that you can avoid the problems the others have stated with respect to sending a firm’s logs to a remote server.

There’s a site that does something similar here:

I don’t believe they send the FIX data anywhere, I think they just analyze it locally so that you don’t worry about disclosing data to an outside server.

Also, you might think about expanding all the elements by default, as it took me a minute to figure out what all the blue bars were in the example analytic display on your site… or at least make it more obvious that they can be expanded to show the message details.

Cheers,

Russ

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Hi James,

You might think about just processing the log files locally, using javascript - so that you can avoid the problems the others have stated with respect to sending a firm’s logs to a remote server.

There’s a site that does something similar here:

http://www.validfix.com

I don’t believe they send the FIX data anywhere, I think they just analyze it locally so that you don’t worry about disclosing data to an outside server.

Also, you might think about expanding all the elements by default, as it took me a minute to figure out what all the blue bars were in the example analytic display on your site… or at least make it more obvious that they can be expanded to show the message details.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the feedback, I used to use ValidFix’s log viewer until they started to charge for the service, so I decided to build my own for personal use, over the last few months it turned into fixlogchecker.com.

I have just updated the site to show drop down arrows on each message to make it more obvious to users that they can be expanded, I agree it wasn’t very obvious. :slight_smile:

Thanks,
James.