Nogger 3.0

Read your log files online from a dashboard.

What it is

Nogger is a log reader written with nodejs that brings features like grep and tail to the web. Zero configuration is needed!

To see a detailed explaination have a look at this blog entry: http://blog.paulem.eu/nogger/

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install nogger -g Make sure to set -g to install it globally to have the nogger command available! That's it! No databases or other dependencies are required.

Feel free to start as many instances as you want.

CLI

  $ nogger --help
  
|--HELP--------------------------------------------------------|
|                                                              |
| usage: nogger [action]                                       |
|                                                              |
|                                                              |
| actions:                                                     |
|                                                              |
|  start                Starts nogger on port 1337 in cwd      |
|   -p, --port <port>      Optional. Port for dashboard.       |
|   -f, --folder <folder>  Optional. Absolute LogFiles folder. |
|                                                              |
|  adduser <user> <pw>  Adds a user for dashboard login        |
|  listusers            Lists all users in db                  |
|  removeuser <user>    Removes an existing user               |
|  changepw <user> <pw> Changes password of existing user      |
|                                                              |
|  -v, --version        Shows current nogger version           |
|  -h, --help           Shows help menu                        |
|                                                              |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|

A sample command to start watching a folder would be:

nogger start /var/log/nginx/

Just make sure you have added a user like so (you can also do this after you started the server)

nogger adduser paul supersecretpw

Updating

For all minor version updates just run

npm install nogger -g

again and restart your process. Major updates with breaking changes will have detailed explanations.

Contributing

Please submit all issues and pull requests to the paul-em/nogger repository!

Support

If you have any problem or suggestion please open an issue here.

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Paul Em

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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