lazyjournal is a terminal application for inspecting logs from multiple sources through a single text user interface.
It can work with system and user journals, audit logs, ordinary log files, container logs, Compose stacks, and Kubernetes pods, and it also supports access to remote logs over SSH and rsyslog-based collection, which makes it useful for troubleshooting across both local and remote environments.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Streams new log events in real time, similar to tail.
- Provides several filtering modes including exact, fuzzy, regular expression, and date-based filtering.
- Supports built-in log highlighting as well as optional external highlighters.
- Shows systemd services and boot entries to make navigation to relevant logs easier.
- Can read rotated and archived logs, including compressed log files and packet capture files.
- Supports running the interface in a web browser when launched in a Docker container.
- Includes context and namespace switching for Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/Lifailon/lazyjournal
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Developer: Lifailon
License: MIT License
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