WAwalth·Jul 31, 2024
Found it much easier to just used structured logs and slice them with [angle grinder](https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder)
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rcoh / angle-grinder
angle-grinder
Slice and dice logs on the command line
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Slice and dice logs on the command line
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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16 sourcesAngle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
151 points · Open discussionSeems like similar to lnav[1] or angle-grinder[2].
[1] https://lnav.org/
[2] https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder
In Show HN: How did I live without Pipe Watch?Speaking of logs, angle-grinder is amazing: https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder
In New(ish) command line toolsShow HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs
144 points · Open discussionAngle Grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
2 points · Open discussionangle-grinder: slice and dice logs on the command line
3 points · Open discussionSlightly off topic... but, if you're interested in console logging tools, have you looked into https://lnav.org or https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder/ ?
In Unit-testing a console appMaybe checkout LNAV: http://lnav.org/
There's also angle-grinder, which has less features, but also pretty useful: https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder
In Ask HN: What is a simple tool for parsing and analyzing log files?Angle Grinder: A rust CLI app to analyze real-time log data
1 points · Open discussionHi -- OP here. I actually do it in the tests (but for TOML):
https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder/blob/master/tests/inte...
https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder/blob/master/tests/stru...
In Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines inIf you're just tailing logs on the server (or with kubectl) but need a bit more power, angle-grinder [1] is pretty good (and of course doesn't need to be hosted or anything, it's just a CLI app)
[1] https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder
In Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logsAngle Grinder: Slice and Dice Log Files on the Command Line
1 points · Open discussionAngle-Grinder: Slice and dice log files on the command line
5 points · Open discussionShow HN: CLI App for quick and easy log analytics
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