Compact Log Viewer Alternatives

Apps similar to Compact Log Viewer include LNAV, which is free and open source. Other options are BareTail, JournalView, lazyjournal and Logdy. You can choose from more than 10 Log Analyzers like Compact Log Viewer for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. LNAV icon
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    All log file contents are merged into a single view based on message timestamps. You no longer need to manually correlate timestamps across multiple windows or figure out the order in which to view rotated log files.

    16 LNAV alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. BareTail icon
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    BareTail is a real-time log file monitoring tool.

    Features

    Real-time file viewing

    • Optimised real-time viewing engine
    • View files of any size (> 2GB)
    • Scroll to any point in the whole file instantly
    • View files over a network
    • Configurable line wrapping
    • Configurable.
    53 BareTail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    JournalView is a lightweight, terminal-based application written in Rust that allows users to efficiently view, filter, and navigate system logs from journalctl.

    12 JournalView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
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  4.  1 like

    TUI for viewing logs from journald, auditd, file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks and Kubernetes pods with supports log highlighting and several filtering modes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
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  5. Logdy icon
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    Supercharge terminal logs with web browser UI and low-code (TypeScript snippets). Save 90% of time searching and browsing logs. It's like jq, tail, less, grep and awk merged together and available in a clean UI. Self-hosted, single binary.

    16 Logdy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. yata icon
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    Yata is a general purpose log viewer and file monitor with a nice pretty GUI. "Yata" is an acronym for "Yet Another Tail Application", so named because of its focus on viewing logs in real time (similar to what one might use "tail -f" on the unix...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Convert the JSON log into readable form with command line. - GitHub - gagan-bansal/munia-pretty-json: Convert the JSON log into readable form with command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Powerful terminal based viewer for JSON logs using ncurses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Log Manager lets you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Slice and dice logs on the command line. Angle-grinder allows you to parse, aggregate, sum, average, min/max, percentile, and sort your data. You can see it, live-updating, in your terminal. Angle grinder is designed for when, for whatever reason, you don't have your data in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Nerdlog is a fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server. Loosely inspired by Graylog/Kibana, but without the bloat. Pretty much no setup needed, either.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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