Triage production log spikes and incidents from the terminal with lnav

Open raw logs, jump to error clusters, query structured fields, and summarize incident clues without shipping data to a separate platform.

Prerequisites

lnav, local or remote log files, terminal access

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• $ brew install lnav
• $ make

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• You can SSH into a demo node to play with lnav before installing.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• filter messages using regular expressions or SQLite expressions;

• an example:

• Download a statically-linked binary for Linux/MacOS/Windows from the release page

• Source: https://github.com/tstack/lnav

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tstack/lnav/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://docs.lnav.org/

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange