ELOG

ELOG

Example ELOG web pages
Developer(s)	Stefan Ritt
Stable release	3.1.0-2 / 2015-04-23
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application
License	GPL
Website	ELOG home page

ELOG is a Web application written by Stefan Ritt in C which can be used to create personal and common logbooks. It has been developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute originally for shift logbooks in the particle physics experiment MEG, but is now widely used in other fields. Besides the CERN experiments LHCb and CMS is it used on the US coastguard icebreaker USCGC Healy and part of the Debian distribution.

ELOG is licensed under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is currently available in 13 languages.

ELOG combines a small internal database with a web front-end in a single program. It can be configured though a single configuration file for different applications such as:

The main difference between ELOG and other systems is the fact that ELOG does not depend on any other package such as a database server or PHP. A single executable together with a configuration file make it very simple to install and use.

ELOG consists of a single C program and can be compiled on most systems. Most commonly it is used under Linux, MS Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. ELOG is part of the Debian distribution [1].