In log files you can get all the information about the issue like when it start behaving abnormal based on warning or error message. This can be very useful when you have an issue with application or service.
Suggested Read : Efficient Ways To Read The Log Files In LinuxĪ server log is a log file which is created and frequently updated by a server to capture all the activity for the particular service or application. The built-in log message parser can automatically discover and extract the each lines with detailed information. If you want to grep any particular pattern, just type your inputs on search prompt which will be highlighted instantly. Top & Bottom status bars will tell you, where you are in the logs. It display the log messages from all files sorted by the message timestamps.
The number of warnings and errors are highlighted in the display (Yellow & Red), so that we can easily see where the problems have occurred. The color bars on the left-hand side help to show which file a message belongs to.
#Lnav log windows#
lnav Merge more than one log files (Single Log View) into a single view based on message timestamps which will reduce multiple windows open.
This can decompresses all the compressed log files (zip, gzip, bzip) on the fly and merge them together for easy navigation. It does the same job how other file viewers doing like cat, more, tail, etc but have more enhanced features which is not available in normal file viewers (especially, it will comes with set of color and easy to read format). LNAV stands for Log file Navigator is an advanced console based log file viewer for Linux.
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