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_This is the source repository for **lnav**, visit [https://lnav.org](https://lnav.org) for a high level overview._
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# LNAV -- The Logfile Navigator
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The Log File Navigator, **lnav** for short, is an advanced log file viewer
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for the small-scale. It is a terminal application that can understand
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your log files and make it easy for you to find problems with little to
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no setup.
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## Screenshot
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The following screenshot shows a syslog file. Log lines are displayed with
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highlights. Errors are red and warnings are yellow.
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[](docs/assets/images/lnav-syslog.png)
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## Features
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- Log messages from different files are collated together into a single view
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- Automatic detection of log format
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- Automatic decompression of GZip and BZip2 files
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- Filter log messages based on regular expressions
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- Use SQL to analyze your logs
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- And more...
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## Installation
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[Download a statically-linked binary for Linux/MacOS from the release page](https://github.com/tstack/lnav/releases/latest#release-artifacts)
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## Usage
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The only file installed is the executable, `lnav`. You can execute it
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with no arguments to view the default set of files:
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```
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$ lnav
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```
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You can view all the syslog messages by running:
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```
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$ lnav /var/log/messages*
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```
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### Usage with `systemd-journald`
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On systems running `systemd-journald`, you can use `lnav` as the pager:
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```
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$ journalctl | lnav
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```
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or in follow mode:
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```
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$ journalctl -f | lnav
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```
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Since `journalctl`'s default output format omits the year, if you are
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viewing logs which span multiple years you will need to change the
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output format to include the year, otherwise `lnav` gets confused:
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```
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$ journalctl -o short-iso | lnav
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```
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It is also possible to use `journalctl`'s json output format and `lnav`
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will make use of additional fields such as PRIORITY and \_SYSTEMD_UNIT:
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```
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$ journalctl -o json | lnav
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```
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In case some MESSAGE fields contain special characters such as
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ANSI color codes which are considered as unprintable by journalctl,
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specifying `journalctl`'s `-a` option might be preferable in order
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to output those messages still in a non binary representation:
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```
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$ journalctl -a -o json | lnav
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```
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If using systemd v236 or newer, the output fields can be limited to
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the ones actually recognized by `lnav` for increased efficiency:
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```
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$ journalctl -o json --output-fields=MESSAGE,PRIORITY,_PID,SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER,_SYSTEMD_UNIT | lnav
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```
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If your system has been running for a long time, for increased
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efficiency you may want to limit the number of log lines fed into
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`lnav`, e.g. via `journalctl`'s `-n` or `--since=...` options.
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In case of a persistent journal, you may want to limit the number
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of log lines fed into `lnav` via `journalctl`'s `-b` option.
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## Links
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- [Main Site](https://lnav.org)
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- [**Documentation**](https://docs.lnav.org) on Read the Docs
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- [Internal Architecture](ARCHITECTURE.md)
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## Contributing
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- [Become a Sponsor on GitHub](https://github.com/sponsors/tstack)
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### Building From Source
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#### Prerequisites
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The following software packages are required to build lnav:
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- gcc/clang - A C++14-compatible compiler.
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- libpcre - The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library.
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- sqlite - The SQLite database engine. Version 3.9.0 or higher is required.
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- ncurses - The ncurses text UI library.
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- readline - The readline line editing library.
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- zlib - The zlib compression library.
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- bz2 - The bzip2 compression library.
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- libcurl - The cURL library for downloading files from URLs. Version 7.23.0 or higher is required.
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- libarchive - The libarchive library for opening archive files, like zip/tgz.
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#### Build
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Lnav follows the usual GNU style for configuring and installing software:
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Run `./autogen.sh` if compiling from a cloned repository.
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```
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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```
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## See Also
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[Angle-grinder](https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder) is a tool to slice and dice log files on the command-line.
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If you're familiar with the SumoLogic query language, you might find this tool more comfortable to work with.
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