This might help you out when analyzing time series data.

In this particular situation I’m looking at a bunch of SOA web services that get called synchronously in the backend infrastructure. The logs have entries with a unix timestamp, service description and duration. What I want to do is view the data in a Gantt Chart [...]

I hate to say it… but Microsoft really have produced an excellent tool for sysadmins and performance testers alike. That tool is called LogParser. I’ve mentioned it before but that was more IIS specific. LogParser can be pointed at just about any type of log file. So with a bit of Perl (or equivalent) to [...]