Or any other log files/output? I’m open to any solution, but what I would like…
…is something where I can just click on a word or select some text and say “filter that out”
Something that colors different log levels differently, preferably automatically.
Something that can parse the “columns” and give me a nice quick list of values, like different unit names to filter out/solely include.
Something that lets me choose a time and go there. Something that lets me select only a specific timeframe of logs.
I know this can probably be done by going in/out of journalctl, recalling the last command and adding specific filter options… but it just feels slow. It’s so many keypresses when I could just right click on the word and -> “Filter out/Search for” or something.
Maybe something like Logdy? It does have specific documentation around journalctl
journalctl -fu servicename
If I am concerned about a specific service, and can trigger the problematic behavior.
In my head it stands for “fuck you” ☺️
It might be a bit overkill but I use Grafana to do this (with Loki). It’s a pretty involved setup as well, but you can filter and search by content, or date/time. It’s doable on a desktop but mainly servers use it
Centralized logging like Graylog or Grafana Loki can help with a lot of this.
tbh my go to command is just… journalctl -fe -u service
ex :
journalctl -fe -u jellyfin
journalctl -fe -u nordvpndso I’d also like to know the answer to this question. my other go to is dumping journalctl to text files and parsing with grep and awk and creating my own reports with that parsed information.
grep -E is my favorite, I love regex capturing groups.
If you are on gnome,.gnome logs do most of the things you want (if I recall correctly, some years since I run gnome)
Same for KDE https://apps.kde.org/fr/kjournaldbrowser/
I sometimes pipe journalctl into lnav, but it never works quite as well as i really want…
lnav is pretty cool and does mostly what you are describing.
uuhhh maybe here? https://lnav.org/
