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Log Analyzers

12 Best Free and Open Source Log Analyzers

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Making sense of logs helps organisations make better customer-focused decisions. We recommend the finest open source log analyzers.

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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Logfile Viewers

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of useful Linux logfile viewers.

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humanlog is a pretty log viewer

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

humanlog reads logs from stdin and prints them back to stdout, but prettier.

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QLogExplorer – tool for exploring log files

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

QLogExplorer is billed as an advanced tool for exploring log files.

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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl

February 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

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