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Log File Viewer for the Terminal

Log File Viewer for the Terminal

wiradikusuma

Comments (26)

  • guessmyname
    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...
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  • Sammi
    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
  • p0w3n3d
    This is almost the thing I want and need. What I need is some sort of TUI grafana - Json log splitter/organizer/finder
  • rsafaya
    I wish I had found this earlier. Nothing like looking at thousands of EV charger logs all day to mak you appreciate something like this.
  • elcapitan
    > ssh playground@demo.lnav.orgReally appreciate this way to demo it quickly, very nice!
  • brunosutic
    I tried lnav about 7-8 years ago and as a terminal junkie I really liked the features.The only breaking thing was a huge (almost bloated) memory consumption. At that time lnav basically just kept everything in memory. Does anyone did that change?
  • asmosoinio
    Looks very useful, will give it a go.This resonates with my use of grep+less: https://github.com/tstack/lnav?tab=readme-ov-file#why-not-ju...
  • __bax
    Must have tool!
  • steveharing1
    I was looking for something like this, Appreciate it!
  • vincentabolarin
    This looks genuinely useful.
  • yagelar
    very nice, definitely will use it
  • worksonmine
    It's a nice tool but I really wish the configuration wasn't done in json and loaded from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
  • Duke64
    I'm a little disappointed that it's not written in Rust.
  • leontloveless
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  • teh
    Super useful tool but need to be aware that this is reading potentially untrusted input (e.g. in the case of http request logs) and written in c++, so a possible attack vector. I use lnav where I trust the logs, but do wish a safe implementation existed.