[clug] lnav - Log file navigation

Hal Ashburner hal at ashburner.info
Tue Mar 31 17:11:30 MDT 2015


Thanks Paul.
The epel repo has it for RHEL/Centos, from where I am really enjoying
using it. A thing that would not have happened without your review.
Much appreciated.


On 31 March 2015 at 21:17, Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> wrote:
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> Hi people,
>
> I've just discovered a tool I've been wishing for for years - a text-based
> log file navigation tool called 'lnav'.  But it's much more than 'less':
>
> * it recognises the format of most log files and does syntax highlighting.
> * it recognises date formats and can merge a directory of logs together in
> time order, across different files and formats.
> * it recognises error and warning lines and highlights them.
> * it deals with multiple growing files like 'tail -f' and automatically
> scrolls down when viewing the bottom of the files.
> * it transparently decompresses compressed log files into memory for viewing.
> * you can navigate around by time - e.g. move forward ten minutes, or move
> to the last minute '50' in the log.
> * you can see a 'histogram' of lines by time, and then zoom in on the times
> that have few or many log lines.
> * you can search for lines and it will move to those words and syntax
> highlight them in real time.
> * it can filter lines out, or only show lines, based on a regular
> expression, even on growing log files.
> * you can define your own log formats with regular expressions in an easy to
> use JSON format.
> * all regular expressions are Perl-compatible for maximum power and flexibility.
> * you can search on fields found in the log lines using SQL (lnav provides a
> virtual SQLite backend)
> * it's really fast
> * it's quite compact, at only a megabyte in size.
>
> There's a bunch of other stuff I haven't played with yet, but it's amazingly
> powerful.  Find it in your local distro - Korora has it via Fedora, for example.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Paul
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