As part of my effort to make an appearence in every issue of the Zope Weekly News ;-), I'm pleased to announce the release of The Tranalyzer: http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/Tranalyzer The Tranalyzer is a tool to parse ZODB3 .fs-type databases and print information about the transactions in in human-readable form. Special features include the ability to seek to a given file position and start printing the first transaction at or after that point, and the ability to work with live .fs files, printing new transactions as they are appended (think tail -f)