Kolja Log Tools

Kolja Log Tools

My occasional side-project, Kolja, is getting quite feature complete.

Its a set of tools for viewing log files. Designed to be more developer oriented improved versions of less, cat, tail, awk, sed.

The general approach is to define a config file to support your log file format.

- Line Parser
- Output Format (pretty printing log lines)
- Important Events e.g. Exceptions or 500 errors
- Request Grouping i.e. request id in each log line

An example for HTTP access log files

wf1.xml

But this can be customised i.e. your own custom LineParser

Here are some demos

Interactive i.e. Less on steroids

- View file with pretty printing or plain text output
- Search for a regex with highlighting
- Find significant events e.g. exception
- Jump to a specific request



Command Line tools

- Tail a file with pretty printing and pause
- Run scripted reports on your files
- Run existing (customised) reports i.e. frequency reports




Here is the source control, currently the only substitute for the lacking documentation.

Fisheye