The Kibana Log Browser from Search Technologies

Browse your log files directly from Elasticsearch Kibana

Why?

• Replicate Unix-Style browsing in a web browser

  • Browse log lines like you would using more

• More secure:

  • No need to log onto the servers and do more, tail & grep

• Easily browse combined logs from across multiple servers

  • Browse multiple logs from multiple servers together

  • Especially important for clustered arrays of machines

• Intended for troubleshooting by developers

  • Find a log line, browse it in context, scroll up and down

Screen Shots

Features

• A browser for host names

  • Filter by name, date, server type

  • Select multiple hosts

• A browser for log files

• Filter by name

• Select multiple files (browse all files together)

• Browse log lines

• Paging

• 5 lines, 10 lines, to a line

• Control page size

• Find In File

  • Uses full text search

  • Show highlighted text

  • Show only lines which match, or all lines

  • Jump to next / previous match

• Wrap lines (or not)

• Sort

• Jump to line (infinite scroll bar)

• Uses Cursors to scan through long lists

• Constructs a line # / ID mapping for faster scrolling

Requirements

1. Kibana 5

2. You must have the following index fields:

   • message – Holds the text of the log line

     • Can be multi-line

   • message40 – Holds the first 40 characters of "message"

     • Used for sorting on the message

   • @timestamp – The ingestion time of the log line

     • Automatically added by logstash

   • host – The server host which gathered the log

     • IP or hostname

   • log_time – The time parsed out of the log line

   • type – The type of server

     • Used to browse log files of a particular type

     • Examples: apache, nginx, myapp1, myapp2, etc.

   • source - the filename path of the log file on the server

     • Note: This is not friendly with "\" (backslash), we recommend replacing backslash with forward slash

Mappings

{
  "host": { "type": "keyword" }, 
  
  "message": { "type": "text" }, 

  "message40": { "type": "keyword" }, 

  "source": { "type": "keyword" }, 
  
  "type": { "type": "keyword" } ,

  "@timestamp": { "type": "date" }, 

  "log_time": { "type": "date" }
}

Installation

For Kibana 5:

kibana-plugin install https://github.com/searchtechnologies/kibana-logbrowser/releases/download/1.0.2/log_browser.zip 

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2"), quoted below.

Copyright 2017 Search Technologies Corporation (http://www.searchtechnologies.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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