Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
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HN comment orderSee https://lnav.org for a powerful mini-ETL CLI power tool; it embeds SQLite, supports ~every format, has great UX and easily handles a few million rows at a time.
Something that looks vaguely similar to lnav (and Angle Grinder) is fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf). It's quite good at interactively searching for given items in a pile of text. I don't think it does summing "out of the box", but I've found it great for exploring logs (or even very long grep searches) interactively.
That is possibly the best name for a log aggregation and filtering package I've ever seen.
Whoops! Name conflict with the well-known “Silver Searcher” tool that is also known as “ag”. See http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/
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- 58
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-15 | Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs | rusbus | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-03-22 | Show HN: CLI App for quick and easy log analytics | rusbus | 3 | 2 |
| 2018-04-09 | Angle-Grinder: Slice and dice log files on the command line | alpb | 5 | 1 |
| 2018-04-17 | Angle Grinder: Slice and Dice Log Files on the Command Line | rusbus | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-03-05 | Angle Grinder: A rust CLI app to analyze real-time log data | rusbus | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-06-25 | angle-grinder: slice and dice logs on the command line | ducktective | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-07-06 | Angle Grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line | yagizdegirmenci | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-07-19 | Show HN: Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logsFirst breakout | rusbus | 144 | 21 |
| 2024-04-29 | Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command lineBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | kqr | 151 | 34 |