Hugh KaznowskiandClaude Sonnet 5
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- 059: log stream header/column detection is now generic whitespace-columnar splitting (2+ spaces, single tab) instead of one fixed six-column regex. Declared params come from whatever columns the header actually names, plus a trailing unlabelled message field that's never swallowed by the last named column. - 060: timeline sort-by-property now walks an incrementally-maintained per-sort-key helper index (BTreeMap keyed so "has the param, ordered by value" sorts before "missing it, ordered by ottyl_seq") instead of materializing and re-sorting the full filtered range on every query. - 061: helper indexes are swept for staleness on ingest and dropped after 5 minutes unused; a purged (or never-built) index transparently rebuilds via the same lazy one-time scan on the next sorted query. - Also invalidate a param's helper index on manual re-declaration, removal, or ClearParams, so a redefined regex can't leave a sort helper index serving values derived under the old declaration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A1ZJ3SrayzLzVndhVq9BmS
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