LogLens Alternatives

LogLens is described as 'High-performance terminal tool designed to replace jq, grep, and tail -f for structured log analysis' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are six alternatives to LogLens for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Rust apps. The best LogLens alternative is jq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LogLens are grep, ugrep, LNAV and JournalView.

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    jq

     9 likes

    jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

    12 jq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. grep icon

    grep

     35 likes

    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    43 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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  4. ugrep

     2 likes

    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
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    LNAV

     18 likes

    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
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  6. JournalView

     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
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  7. lazyjournal

     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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