Comment by whalesalad
3 days ago
can't you just read from stdin?
i use lnav in this way all the time: journalctl -f -u service | lnav
this is the ethos of unix tooling
3 days ago
can't you just read from stdin?
i use lnav in this way all the time: journalctl -f -u service | lnav
this is the ethos of unix tooling
Not really, at least not yet, because nerdlog's focus is very different than that of lnav. There is a section about it in the article as well.
In fact nerdlog doesn't even support anything like -f (realtime following) yet. The idea to implement it did cross my mind, but I never really needed it in practice, so I figured I'd spend my time on something else. Might do it some day if the demand is popular, but still, nerdlog in general is not about just reading a continuous stream of logs; it's rather about being able to query arbitrary time periods from remote logs, and being very fast at that.