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Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Post by piterrro »

bbkane wrote: post #22
corytheboyd wrote: post #6

Damn, if you took out the “Kubernetes” part, and made it generalized, it looks like you built something that I have wanted to see for a long time. I think log explorers work best as a GUI, and that they need deep integration with structured logs. Basically I just want the DataDog log explorer but locally, and able to simply intake from some files. Some have tried, but they are always too simple, not parsing out prope…

Look into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project. Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.

Logdy author here, thanks for calling out the project! Kubetail is probably best fit for k8s while Logdy is leveraging more unix-like philosophy of being a self contained tool you can tailor to your needs whether that's tailing files, pumping it through TCP socket or REST API. I have plans to include a sqlite storage so Logdy could be used in environments where permanent storage is needed

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

#32

Post by never_inline »

gitroom wrote: post #27

bruh merging logs from all pods at once is something i always wanted, props for finally making this sane

I have hacked together a shell script using tail -f with multiple inputs (from kubectl log), and fzf (to select namespace/deployment if there are many).

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Post by corytheboyd »

bbkane wrote: post #22
corytheboyd wrote: post #6

Damn, if you took out the “Kubernetes” part, and made it generalized, it looks like you built something that I have wanted to see for a long time. I think log explorers work best as a GUI, and that they need deep integration with structured logs. Basically I just want the DataDog log explorer but locally, and able to simply intake from some files. Some have tried, but they are always too simple, not parsing out prope…

Look into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project. Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.

I’ve tried it, but it didn’t seem to have enough structure log support, so I gave up. I just want a way to say “this is a jsonl stream” and have it do the right thing, which is parse out the json paths of each line, and let me filter by those, or add columns for those to the viewer table. It’s not trivial to do this, but that’s exactly why it needs to be done.

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Post by akupila »

glitchcrab wrote: post #2

My personal preference for log tailing is Stern. It doesn't have a web UI but then I've never felt like I needed one. https://github.com/stern/stern

Happy to see this mentioned and still being useful to people! I started this project 9 years ago at a startup but progress stopped when the startup got acquired. The community took over and has done a fantastic job keeping it alive

Re: Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

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Post by andres »

nodesocket wrote: post #34

I’ve been using Kubetail since the early days it was released in my homelab Kubernetes cluster. It’s fantastic and incredibly easy to setup and configure (unlike Loki + Grapha or ELk). Very polished.

Hi @nodesocket! Thanks for your support! Your help ironing out the bugs after launch was incredibly helpful.
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