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Plain text log tail feature request #16
Description
Just started using Render today and I'm a fan. Super easy to set up. And, I love that your cli is written in go with all of its charmbraclety goodness. I would love to be able to just tail the raw logs to the console so that I can grep, parse, colorize, etc. using my own scripts. For example, in dev, I use this jq monstrosity to colorize the logs:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
highlight=
if [[ "$1" != "" ]]
then
highlight="$1"
fi
jq --unbuffered -r -R -M 'fromjson? | .' \
| awk -v highlight="$highlight" 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} { \
if ($0 ~ /msg/) { \
line = $0; \
if (highlight != "") { \
gsub(highlight,"\033[1;33m" highlight "\033[0m", line); \
} \
print "\033[1;32m" line "\033[0m"; \
} else { \
line = $0; \
gsub(/INFO/,"\033[1;32mINFO\033[0m", line); \
gsub(/WARN/,"\033[1;33mWARN\033[0m", line); \
gsub(/ERROR/,"\033[1;31mERROR\033[0m", line); \
if (highlight != "") { \
gsub(highlight,"\033[1;33m" highlight "\033[0m", line); \
} \
print line \
} \
}'
It'd be dreamy if I could do something like
render logs -f | ./bin/pretty-jq
and get the familiar log view that I enjoy when running locally.
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jakemalachowski commentedon Jan 2, 2025
You should be able to do this by passing in
-o jsonto your logs command. Does this address use case?kensmith commentedon Jan 2, 2025
I got what I wanted from this
is it possible to avoid printing the timestamp? I already have the timestamp in my slog output. That would avoid needing the cut part.
davidharting commentedon Sep 14, 2026
If your log messages are JSON formatted then the using
--output jsonshould put your app's entire JSON log (serialized to string) inside of the.messagefield.So I'm wondering if this would give you what you want?