Ask HN: What do you use to view logs?

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Emuto

I guess it kinda depends on lots of things… I guess many people use Graylog, Splunk or similar web-based systems (which can be self-hosted if you like). Not sure if there are any readymade applications for using locally on your Mac. Maybe you can hack something together with jq + Bash + awk etc? These tools might also be useful: https://kantord.github.io/emuto/ https://github.com/antonmedv/fx Best of luck!

#File Manager #File Explorer #FTP Client 1 social mentions

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fx

I guess it kinda depends on lots of things… I guess many people use Graylog, Splunk or similar web-based systems (which can be self-hosted if you like). Not sure if there are any readymade applications for using locally on your Mac. Maybe you can hack something together with jq + Bash + awk etc? These tools might also be useful: https://kantord.github.io/emuto/ https://github.com/antonmedv/fx Best of luck!

#File Manager #File Explorer #FTP Client 17 social mentions

3

LNAV

The Logfile Navigator (https://lnav.org) is a TUI for viewing log files that can be configured to process structured JSON files. It has quite a few features, like filtering and color coding. The documentation for writing a format file is here -- https://docs.lnav.org/en/latest/formats.html The format file tells lnav what common fields are in the log messages and how to format them into plaintext for display. Here's an example configuration for JSON logs -- https://github.com/tstack/fullsail_lnav_config/blob/master/fullsail_log.json.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Realtime Analytics 59 social mentions