lazyjournal Alternatives

lazyjournal is described as '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' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to lazyjournal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best lazyjournal alternative is LNAV, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like lazyjournal are BareTail, JournalView, Logdy and SPHW LogViewer.

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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.

    13 LNAV alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  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.
    48 BareTail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
     
  4. 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.

    15 Logdy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. The SPHW LogViewer is the perfect companion for software developers or administrators. With its functions, you can easily keep an overview and track down problems very quickly. The SPHW LogViewer was developed with the aim of sustainably improving the productivity as well as the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. LOG4VIEW icon
     1 like

    LOG4VIEW helps you find areas of code and bugs and identify performance issues. Powerful filters enable you to quickly filter out the log lines you are currently interested in from several millions of log lines.

    33 LOG4VIEW alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  10. 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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    LogLens is a high-performance terminal tool designed to replace jq, grep, and tail -f for structured log analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  12. Compact Log Viewer is an open-source developer utility to read, search & filter logs stored in the CLEF (Compact Log Event Format). As opposed to reading JSON log files in a simple text editor, with this tool you are able to get an easy oversight to the number of errors...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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