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The Logfile Navigator

lnav.org

The Logfile Navigator, lnav for short, is an advanced log file viewer for the small-scale.

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26 from 10 Sep 2013 to 24 Mar 2025
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2025 1

  1. Visual Changelog for v0.13.0

2024 2

  1. Support for the PRQL in the database query prompt
  2. Using lnav to solve the CyberDefenders Hammered Challenge

2023 2

  1. Tooling for troubleshooting configuration
  2. Cursor Mode

2022 5

  1. VSCode Extension for lnav
  2. Playground and Tutorial
  3. Markdown Support
  4. Pretty error messages
  5. Integration with regex101.com

2021 1

  1. Tailing files on remote hosts

2020 1

  1. Drilling down into XML snippets

2019 1

  1. Support for Themes

2018 4

  1. Visual filter editor
  2. Support for tagging and commenting on log messages
  3. Tutorial for lnav in Linux Magazine
  4. Reveal log message source file paths by pressing left-arrow

2016 1

  1. lnav in print

2015 1

  1. Pretty-print view in v0.7.3

2014 2

  1. Added "lo-fi" mode
  2. Changes To The Scrollbar

2013 5

  1. Mini review of lnav in Linux Magazine
  2. Four years on GitHub
  3. Support for JSON-encoded logs in v0.6.1
  4. Competing with 'tail -f'
  5. Mini-review of lnav in Linux User Magazine