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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• nerdlog

Projektgeschichte

The maintainer frames Nerdlog as loosely inspired by Graylog and Kibana, but intentionally avoiding their server-side setup. The README states the primary use case: reading system logs from `/var/log/messages`, `/var/log/syslog`, or `journalctl` across one or more remote hosts, including large log files around 1GB or more. It does remote-side analysis, transfers matching rows plus timeline histogram data, compresses most data in transit, and merges results into a single TUI.

GitHub metadata retrieved on 2026-07-01 showed about 1.5k stars and 39 forks. GitHub releases list v1.0.0 on 2025-04-22 and v1.10.0 on 2025-06-09, indicating a short but active public release window.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The adoption story is early and mostly source/community driven: GitHub stars, Hacker News and Reddit discussion, Homebrew/MacPorts/Alpine packaging, and the maintainer's own article and README. The Homebrew formula API reported stable version 1.10.0 and 10 install-on-request events in the prior 30 days when checked on 2026-07-01, so packaged usage is still small compared with the attention around the initial open-source release.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `nerdlog`, define local or SSH logstreams, filter with awk-like expressions or regular expressions, and use the timeline histogram to narrow the time range. It is aimed at operators who have SSH access to hosts and want Graylog/Kibana-like querying for plain system logs without deploying Elasticsearch, agents, collectors, or a log database.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Nerdlog is a useful package-nerd signal for the 'no server, just SSH and logs' school of operations tooling. It complements heavier log stacks by serving small fleets, personal infrastructure, and incident debugging where setup time matters more than centralized retention.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: Maintainer says the first version was hacked together to replace painfully slow Splunk setups.
• 2025-04-20: GitHub repository created.
• 2025-04-22: v1.0.0 released.
• 2025-06-09: v1.10.0 released.

Related projects

• Graylog
• Kibana
• Splunk
• journalctl
• syslog
• SSH
• gawk

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/dimonomid/nerdlog
• https://api.github.com/repos/dimonomid/nerdlog/releases?per_page=100
• https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nerdlog.json
• https://github.com/dimonomid/nerdlog
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750765
• https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kl443p/built_nerdlog_fast_remotefirst_multihost_tui_log/