Hacker News with Generative AI: Logging

Show HN: A Better Log Service (txtlog.net)
Txtlog.net is an easy to use text log
I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? (iconsolutions.com)
A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit. When the first member of the team who’s client-facing asked me – the go-to guy for metrics and logging at IPF – I barely let them finish: “of course! That’s just Prometheus and Jaeger, right? We’ve supported that for years!”
Show HN: LogLayer – Unified logger that routes logs to various logging libraries (loglayer.dev)
Show HN: Caravan, a flexible, transport-based logging system for TypeScript apps (github.com/carlos-menezes)
A flexible, transport-based logging system for JavaScript/TypeScript applications.
RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith (github.com/Brandon-c-tech)
RAG Logger is an open-source logging tool designed specifically for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. It serves as a lightweight, open-source alternative to LangSmith, focusing on RAG-specific logging needs.
Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) (avi.im)
I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3. This post is the third part in the series:
Ask HN: Light self-hosted logs/metrics/traces dashboard? (ycombinator.com)
I’m aware of enterprise scale observability tools like ELK stack and datadog.
Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse (github.com/hyperdxio)
HyperDX helps engineers quickly figure out why production is broken by making it easy to search & visualize logs and traces on top of any Clickhouse cluster (imagine Kibana, for Clickhouse).
Show HN: Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI) (github.com/resola-ai)
A terminal-based user interface (TUI) application for viewing AWS Lambda function logs across multiple profiles and regions.
OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics (github.com/openobserve)
🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).
Logging Best Practices: An Engineer's Checklist (honeycomb.io)
The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems.
Show HN: Universal Logger for Node, Deno, Bun, Browser (adzejs.com)
Getting Started is Easy
Logbookd – SQLite Backed Syslogd (git.sr.ht)
This is a syslogd implementation that is the answer to the question "what if the busybox developers made journald".
Customizing Nginx Logs: A Comprehensive Guide (betterstack.com)
Nginx, like most applications, records a wealth of data related to client interactions, system events, and potential errors. However, this data's potential can only be fully realized through proper configuration, management, and analysis.
Struggling with Container HTTP Logs? Meet Logmink (github.com/mutairibassam)
Logmink.hub is a centralized logging hub designed to store all logs sent by agents deployed across containers.
'Sustainable' logging operations are clear-cutting Canada's forests (reuters.com)
Launch HN: Patchwork (YC S24) – Automatically add structured logs to your code (ycombinator.com)
Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency (github.com/PlatformLab)
Show HN: Logforth, Rust's versatile and extensible logging implementation (docs.rs)
Logging C function calls with cosmopolitan Libc (2022) (justine.lol)
Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes (ycombinator.com)
Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs (utoronto.ca)
Structured logs are the way to start (shippingbytes.com)
US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban (opb.org)
Lnav Logfile Navigator (lnav.org)
Show HN: LogsQL – opinionated query language for logs (victoriametrics.com)
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR (ntietz.com)
Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line (github.com/rcoh)