Log Explorer: a simple tool to explore and visualize your logs

What is it?

Log Explorer is a NPM package for exploring your logs through a web interface.

It is a simple tool that can be used to quickly analyze your logs and find the information you need.

Log Explorer is meant to be used locally, for production use advanced tools like ELK or Splunk are recommended.

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/log-explorer
GitHub: https://github.com/danielefavi/log-explorer

How to use it?

Installation

Install the package globally:

npm install -g log-explorer

NOTE: if you installed the old package npm-log-explorer, please uninstall it first. If you still get an error during the installation use the --force flag:

npm install -g log-explorer --force

Usage

Run the following command in the directory where your logs are located:

log-explorer

This will start a web server on port 4321. You can then access the web interface at http://localhost:4321

If you want to use another port, you can specify it as an argument:

log-explorer --port 1234

Help

You can get help on the command line by running:

log-explorer --help

Is your log format not supported?

If your log format is not supported, you can easily add it by creating a new parser in the log-parser-strategies directory.
Then please submit a pull request so that we can add it to the package.