What is a convenient log viewer from journalctl?

Question

linux

Tell me what is a convenient simple log viewer for journalctl. Any heavyweight ELK is not interested yet. It is necessary on a budget to spin and work on one server via SSH (well, or remotely from my machine via SSH). Now I have an application running through systemd, the logs of which are available through journalctl. But joutrnalctl itself is not very convenient to use. Maybe there are some solutions for my case. The following is important to me: search/filtering, highlighting, easy navigation. Here is such a service Papertrail. I use it for work, I really like it, but the thing is paid and the logs have to be sent somewhere. It would be desirable all on one server that also console. Something like an advanced viewer.

Answer 1

https://lnav.org/

Answer 2

I would say that the words console and convenient log viewer are incompatible concepts.
Web interface for viewing logs will be more convenient.
Like the abandoned https://github.com/skob/journal
, there are probably fresh projects.

Answer 3

I don’t know what is heavyweight in the ELC ... If it’s not for analytics in production, but for logs, Kibana and Elastic can be placed side by side, a couple of gigs of RAM will be enough for them. Indexing / filters, easy navigation - no console application can compare in terms of convenience.