In looking for an app to view logs that doesn't require a lot of overhead, I stumbled upon Logwatch. After running it through it's paces, it seems to be pretty capable from docker, fail2ban, to sys logs.
I got to wondering if there are other such log viewers I could try that are in the same genre. Logwatch doesn't greate pretty graphics and dialed out dashboards, but it's fairly quick, I can view from a range of dates and times, and a variety of logs.
I checked out GoAcces, but it seemed geared towards web related logs like webpage hits, etc. With other options requiring elastisearch, databases, etc, they just seemed heavy for my application.
Anyone have any suggestions. So far, Logwatch does what it says on the tin, but I'm curious what others have tried or still use.
ETA: Thanks all for the recommends. I'm still going over a couple of them, but lnav seems like what I'm looking for.
https://lnav.org/
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/playground/ccdc-logs/
I played around with some non-elasticsearch web/gui based solutions as well.
I can attest to Lnav being great, short of implementing a full Grafana/Loki stack (which is what i use for most of my infrastructure).
Lnav makes log browsing/filtering in the terminal infinitely more enjoyable.
I'm sitting here running it through some logs. So far, it's on top of the stack.
Those two look pretty interesting. Thanks, I'll check them out.