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Log File Viewer for the Terminal

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Re: Log File Viewer for the Terminal

#11

Oh yeah! lnav is famous. I remember using it like a decade ago to monitor an array of web servers while at GoDaddy; good ol' times. First commit is from Sep 13, 2009: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/commit/b4ec432515e95e86ec9d71... . Woah! we’re old. This is what the UX looked like back in the day: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/commit/bce2caa654160518ec11f6...

Wow, the GitHub mobile app doesn't preview PNGs. TIL

Re: Log File Viewer for the Terminal

#13

Oh yeah! lnav is famous. I remember using it like a decade ago to monitor an array of web servers while at GoDaddy; good ol' times. First commit is from Sep 13, 2009: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/commit/b4ec432515e95e86ec9d71... . Woah! we’re old. This is what the UX looked like back in the day: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/commit/bce2caa654160518ec11f6...

Wow, the GitHub mobile app doesn't preview PNGs. TIL

GitHub website does on mobile.

Re: Log File Viewer for the Terminal

#17
post #2

This is almost the thing I want and need. What I need is some sort of TUI grafana - Json log splitter/organizer/finder

In my opinion logfile navigator is much better than grafana, I use grafana to view a lot of microservices docker logs, but it's too tedious for me (even if depends on your specific use case).

This one, on the other hand, is cleaner and lets you find what you're looking for quickly. And, last but not least, is much lighter.

Re: Log File Viewer for the Terminal

#19
post #18

This looks great. I've been using klogg and if you're more into GUI's then I think it's the best there is. It opens and searches in log files of many gigabytes with easy. It's a simple and clean multiplatform QT app. https://github.com/variar/klogg

The problem with GUIs is that AFAIK they need to be installed on the machine the logs you are reading are on so a heavy install on a server.
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