Log format description files for lnav
http://lnav.org is a powerful log file reader, designed to take multiple log files and order them by date. It understands log file formats using regular expresions and can highlight sections of line, find errors and warnings, and more.
This repository is for the log file format descriptions I've written so far.
You can install these by simply checking this directory out in your '~/.lnav/formats' directory.
lnav version
Some of these formats use features that are only available in lnav version 0.8.0 or above. If you get warnings, try renaming the offending files to .json-unused to see if this fixes things.
Easy creation of formats
I now provide a new tool, make_format.pl
, which takes a series of lines from
stdin and turns them into sample lines in a new format. This can, for
instance, be used by marking several significant lines in lnav and issuing the
command:
:pipe-to perl path/to/make_format.pl -name example -output example_log.json
Using the -name
or -n
option sets the name in the format. This is lazy,
so you'll need to edit it to suit yourself. If this option is not specified
the format name is 'NEW' throughout.
Using the -output
or -o
option sets the destination for the new format.
If this is not specified the result will be written to standard output.