LNAV AlternativesLog & Web Log Analyzers like LNAV

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

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  1. Hitomi icon
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    Hitomi opens CSV or data/logs in non-standard formats instantly and offers intuitive and powerful filtering and analysis options.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • 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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  3. RustyCat icon
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    RustyCat is a modern Android logcat viewer written in Rust that makes debugging Android applications more pleasant with colored output and smart formatting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
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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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  5.  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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  6. 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...

    39 SPHW LogViewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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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    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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  9. LOG4VIEW icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. 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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    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
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  12. 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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