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Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram

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134 points dimonomid | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

For more background and technical details, I wrote this up as well: https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article
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Zopieux ◴[21 Apr 25 13:51 UTC] No.43752026[source]▶
journalctl is mentioned once in the landing page and it seems to imply that journalctl is not supported per se, as logs need to be stored plaintext to legacy syslog (?).

I do not want to store plaintext logs and use ancient workarounds like logrotate. journald itself has the built-in ability to receive logs from remote hosts (journald remote & gateway) and search them using --merge.

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1. tstack ◴[21 Apr 25 13:59 UTC] No.43752090[source]▶
The article makes it sound like it uses various command-line tools (bash/awk/head/tail) to process the logs. So, I imagine it's not a huge leap to extend support to using journalctl to do that work instead.
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2. mamcx ◴[21 Apr 25 15:45 UTC] No.43753262[source]▶
One small hitch I found is that this kind of tools are fixes in what to process, so for example I can't use them for structured logging. If it has an escape hatch where I can supply my own pipe (for example `process = 'vector ....'`) then it will be enough.