lazyjournal

TUI for viewing logs from journald, Docker, and Kubernetes

TLDR

Launch the interactive log viewer

$ lazyjournal

Pipe logs and filter with fuzzy search

$ cat [/var/log/syslog] | lazyjournal -f "[error]"

Pipe logs and filter with regex

$ cat [/var/log/syslog] | lazyjournal -r "[error|fatal]"

Connect to a remote system via SSH

$ lazyjournal --ssh "[user@host -p 2222]"

lazyjournal is a TUI for reading logs from multiple sources including journald, auditd, file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks, and Kubernetes pods. It supports log highlighting and several filtering modes.Filtering capabilities include case-sensitive exact matching, fuzzy search (similar to fzf), regex patterns, and timestamp-based date/time range selection. It can list all systemd services with their current state and stream new events in real time like tail.

PARAMETERS

-f

Enable fuzzy search filtering mode (case-insensitive inexact matching, similar to fzf).

-r

Enable regex filtering mode.

-c

Enable output highlighting in command-line mode.

-l, --logging

Write executed commands to a log file for debugging.

-m

Disable mouse control.

-t, --timezone-filter offset

Set UTC offset for date/time range filtering (default: `+00:00`).

--ssh args

Connect to a remote system via SSH. Accepts standard SSH arguments as a single quoted string.

INSTALL

brew install lazyjournal

nix profile install nixpkgs#lazyjournal

CAVEATS

Log source availability depends on the host system. Docker and Kubernetes log sources require their respective runtimes to be installed and running.

HISTORY

lazyjournal was created by Lifailon and is written in Go. It is inspired by lazydocker and lazygit, and supports Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows.