Lifailon/lazyjournal

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

lazyjournal is a terminal user interface (TUI) written in Go for viewing and filtering logs from journald, auditd, filesystem log files, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks, and Kubernetes pods. It provides streaming tail output, log highlighting, multiple filtering modes, and can run in a browser when launched in a Docker container.

Use cases

• view systemd journal logs in a terminal UI
• tail and filter docker container logs interactively
• browse kubernetes pod logs with highlighting
• inspect auditd logs with filtering
• search across multiple log sources from one interface
• monitor log files on the filesystem like tail -f with a TUI
• filter journald entries by service unit and time

When to choose

• you want a lazygit/lazydocker-style TUI for logs across journald, containers, and k8s
• you need a single dependency-free binary for log viewing on a server
• you want interactive filtering and highlighting instead of piping journalctl through grep

When to avoid

• you need centralized log aggregation or long-term storage (use Loki, ELK, or Grafana)
• you need alerting or dashboards rather than interactive viewing
• you primarily work on systems without a terminal or outside Linux/macOS/Windows CLI environments

Facets

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logging terminal-ui search-engine monitoring developer-tools monitoring windows cli cross-platform tui log-viewer journald journalctl docker-logs podman kubernetes-logging auditd log-filtering log-highlighting lazygit-inspired gocui syslog single-binary command-line devops containers linux macos docker

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