Journal Viewer is a modern desktop application for viewing and exploring logs stored by the systemd journal.

It provides a graphical alternative to working directly with journalctl. The application displays a summary graph of recent log activity and provides a quick search facility for filtering messages using case-insensitive text matching.

More advanced filtering lets you narrow entries by log priority, date range, systemd service unit, transport and system boot. Individual log entries can be expanded to reveal more information, while infinite scrolling makes it convenient to browse large quantities of journal data.

This is free and open source software.

• Summary graph showing recent log activity.
• Quick case-insensitive search of log messages.
• Filter entries by log priority.
• Filter by date range.
• Filter by systemd service unit.
• Filter by journal transport.
• Filter entries by system boot.
• Graphical indication of log severity.
• Expand individual log entries for additional information.
• Infinite scrolling.
• Refresh journal contents.
• Light and dark themes.
• Alpha System Monitor feature.

Website: github.com/mingue/journal-viewer
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Developer: Victor Mingueza
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Journal Viewer is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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