Hugh KaznowskiandClaude Sonnet 5
3ee6dddb0e
Ticket 106 asked for a real way for API handlers to address the primary vs. profile actor. That routing was already built out of necessity while landing tickets 104/105 (metric queries had to reach the profile actor's snapshot for those tickets' own tests to pass) -- EngineHandle ended up as one combined handle (option (b) from the ticket's own scope note) that internally proxies metric/alert writes to the profile actor and routes MetricDeclarations/BucketValues/Promql reads to its snapshot, with no changes needed to any API handler, reload_engine_declarations/activate_profile, or Profile::load_into_engine -- they already just send EngineMessages the same way they did before the split. mcp_server.rs talks to the HTTP API rather than EngineHandle directly, so it needed no changes either. This commit documents that resolution in handle.rs so a future reader doesn't go looking for routing logic that isn't there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TeyhRfMYjMditek6geDRoQ
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