Seaoflogs Alternatives

seaoflogs reviews and mentions

• Julia Evans: Tips for Analyzing Logs
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022

  I wrote https://github.com/ljw1004/seaoflogs - an interactive filtering tool, for similar ends to what's described here. I wrote it because my team was struggling to analyze LSP logs (that's the protocol used by VSCode to communicate with language servers). But I made it general-purpose able to analyze more log formats too - for instance, we want to correlate LSP logs with server logs and other traffic logs.

  (1) I wanted something where colleagues could easily share links in workplace chat with each other, so we could cooperatively investigate bugs.

  (2) For LSP we're often concerned with responsiveness, and I thought the best way to indicate times when viewing a log is with whitespace gaps between log messages in proportion to their time gap.

  (3) For LSP we have lots of interleaved activity going on, and I wanted to have visual "threads" connecting related logs.

  (4) As the post and lnav say, interactivity is everything. I tried to take it a step further with (1) javascript, (2) playground-style updates as you type, (3) autocomplete which "learns" what fields are available from structured logs.

  My tool runs all in the browser. (I spent effort figuring out how people can distribute it safely and use it for their own confidential logs too). It's fast enough up to about 10k lines of logs.