Or any other log files/output? I’m open to any solution, but what I would like…
…is something where I can just click on a word or select some text and say “filter that out”
Something that colors different log levels differently, preferably automatically.
Something that can parse the “columns” and give me a nice quick list of values, like different unit names to filter out/solely include.
Something that lets me choose a time and go there. Something that lets me select only a specific timeframe of logs.
I know this can probably be done by going in/out of journalctl, recalling the last command and adding specific filter options… but it just feels slow. It’s so many keypresses when I could just right click on the word and -> “Filter out/Search for” or something.
I wish there was something nice like that too.
In the server world that would usually involve doing something like sending the journal data to Elasticsearch using an Elasticsearch integration. But that involves setting up an Elasticsearch server and Kibana and so on which is very unwieldy for a desktop computer. It does work pretty well though in terms of filtering. But it also stores the data internally in indexes to speed up search.
Of course journald has a seemingly simple C API but writing code is a lot of work. There are probably API bindings for various languages.