Not only will it filter in real-time, it will filter as you are typing out your rule! It also features ordering of your rules, which is useful if you want a grep-like filter (only what matches) or the opposite 'everything but this' type of filter. Write regular expressions (or just simple text matches) and define the color and format (bold/italic/underline) you prefer. It also has most of the features on your list including:

Here's a screenshot of lnav running in the OS X terminal:Ĭheck out Log Transformer. XML, JSON, or any structured data) so it is easier to read. The Pretty-print view will reformat any log message data (e.g.

The timeline view shows a histogram of messages over time.Compressed (gzip and bz2) files are automatically decompressed.Log formats are automatically detected and new log formats can be defined using a JSON file with the appropriate regular expressions.Multiple log files can be loaded at the same time and shown in a single view with messages being sorted by time.In addition to those features, lnav has many others: When viewing other parts of the file, the view is locked to only display those lines, but new lines are still be indexed on the fly. Auto-Scroll - When viewing the bottom of the file, the view is automatically scrolled to show the newest lines.So, in practice, loading extremely large files (multi-GB) does not work well. Large files/Limited Loading - lnav does not load the whole file into memory at any one time, but it does need to read through the whole file at startup to do indexing.Filtering is live, like most things in lnav. Filtering - The :filter-in and :filter-out commands can be used to set filters so that only lines that match a given regular expression are shown or not-shown, respectively.Bookmarked lines can also be copied to the clipboard using the c hotkey.

You can then move forward/backward through bookmarks using the u/ U hotkeys. Row Highlighting - You can set bookmarks on lines with the m hotkey.It has most of the features you're interested in, as well as many others: Take a look at lnav, the Logfile Navigator.

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