Hugh KaznowskiandClaude Sonnet 5 3751508de8 Move alert evaluation to the profile actor (ticket 105)
Alert rules are profile-scoped and read metric buckets, which now live
on the profile actor (ticket 104) rather than the primary. alert_states
and the per-line evaluate_alerts/deliver_for_rule calls move from the
primary's Ingest arm to the profile actor's per-line loop, evaluated
against its own snapshot right after that line's apply_all_metrics
publishes -- matching the primary's original per-message publish-then-
evaluate ordering. The primary's run() no longer needs a SettingsHandle
at all now that alerts are gone from its Ingest arm; settings (for
alert rules and ntfy config, read fresh per line) moves to
engine::profile::spawn instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ottyl

Observability for any command's terminal output — no logging backend, no agents, no config to ship.

your_app --verbose | ottyl

Pipe a program's stdout into ottyl and turn it into a searchable log timeline, ad-hoc metrics extracted from the log lines themselves, and Grafana-style dashboards — served from a single local binary, for the lifetime of that process:

  • Search: A syntax-aware filter bar over your logs — regex matches and metric comparisons like latency_ms[value]<200, with relative (5h, -3m) and absolute datetimes.
  • Log timeline: A bucketed bar chart of message volume over time, Kibana-style. Drag across it to set the active time range.
  • Metrics from logs: Declare a metric by matching a regex against your log lines and extracting a value. It applies retroactively to everything already ingested, and to everything that follows.
  • Dashboards: Bar, line, and pie chart panels driven by PromQL-style queries over your declared metrics.
  • Mixed sources: Poll an existing Prometheus/OpenMetrics endpoint alongside log ingestion, in the same dashboard.
  • Profiles: Parsing rules and dashboards are saved per app, so they're there again next time that app runs through ottyl.

Use cases

  • Debugging a noisy CLI or long-running script, instead of scrolling a terminal buffer.
  • Getting metrics and charts out of a program that only ever prints text.
  • Local dashboards without standing up a metrics stack.
  • Combining scraped Prometheus metrics with log-derived ones during a debugging session.

Get started

Requires Rust and Node.js. The webapp is built and embedded into the binary, so the result is a single self-contained executable.

git clone <this-repo>
cd ottyl
make build
your_app --verbose | ottyl

Or point it at a log file instead of stdin, and mix in a Prometheus/OpenMetrics endpoint:

ottyl --file /var/log/your_app.log --metrics-url http://localhost:9090/metrics

ottyl prints the URL of the local web server it starts (an OS-assigned free port by default; pin one with --port). See ottyl --help for the rest, including where settings and profiles live (--settings-path).

Full documentation — filtering syntax, parameters, metrics, dashboards — is built into the app itself, under the nav menu's docs section.

Development

make dev    # frontend dev server with hot reload, proxying to a separately running `cargo run` backend
make test   # backend + frontend tests
make lint   # clippy + oxlint
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