[corytheboyd]

Damn, if you took out the “Kubernetes” part, and made it generalized, it looks like you built something that I have wanted to see for a long time. I think log explorers work best as a GUI, and that they need deep integration with structured logs. Basically I just want the DataDog log explorer but locally, and able to simply intake from some files. Some have tried, but they are always too simple, not parsing out properties of structured logs and building good filtering on top of that. I think setting up Grafana/Loki/Whatever is way too heavy for such a simple ask.

Anyway all that is anecdotal, what you made here is really cool!

[bbkane]

Look into https://logdy.dev . I've played around with it a little bit, but really putting some work into learning it and integrating it with OTEL traces is my next side project.

Another alternative is https://openobserve.ai/ . It needs to run as a daemon to ingest logs (instead of opening a file), but it has a really nice UI.

[piterrro]

Logdy author here, thanks for calling out the project! Kubetail is probably best fit for k8s while Logdy is leveraging more unix-like philosophy of being a self contained tool you can tailor to your needs whether that's tailing files, pumping it through TCP socket or REST API. I have plans to include a sqlite storage so Logdy could be used in environments where permanent storage is needed

[corytheboyd]

I’ve tried it, but it didn’t seem to have enough structure log support, so I gave up. I just want a way to say “this is a jsonl stream” and have it do the right thing, which is parse out the json paths of each line, and let me filter by those, or add columns for those to the viewer table. It’s not trivial to do this, but that’s exactly why it needs to be done.

[andres]

Thanks! Part of what enables us to make a helpful lightweight solution is that we're leveraging the Kubernetes API to give logs context without requiring extra configuration. It'd be great to generalize Kubetail but a lot of that depends on how cloud platforms evolve over the next few years. Do you use Kubernetes?

[AYBABTME]

Sorry for bringing up my own side-project on a "Show HN", but I'm making humanlog.io which does exactly what you want. Local-first log query engine (and tracing too, soon). You feed it your logs and you can search them, aggregate them, and soon make some graphs and dashboards with them. It started as just a CLI tool to parse and make structured logs pretty, and now I'm turning it into a full observability tool on your machine.

It's very WIP but I would love to help you get started if you want to try it out.