Welcome to lnav’s documentation!

The Log File Navigator (lnav) is an advanced log file viewer for the console.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Installation
  • Viewing Logs
• User Interface
• Log Formats
  • Defining a New Format
  • Modifying an Existing Format
  • Scripts
  • Installing Formats
  • Format Order When Scanning a File
• Extracting Data
  • Recognized Data Types
• Sessions
• Hotkey Reference
  • Spatial Navigation
  • Chronological Navigation
  • Bookmarks
  • Display
  • Session
  • Query
• Command Reference
  • Filtering
  • Bookmarks
  • Navigation
  • Time
  • Display
  • SQL
  • Output
  • Miscellaneous
  • Configuration
• SQLite Extensions Reference
  • Commands
  • Environment
  • Math
  • String
  • File Paths
  • Networking
  • JSON
  • Time
  • Internal State
  • Collators
• SQLite Tables Reference
  • environ
  • lnav_views
  • lnav_view_stack
  • lnav_view_filters
  • all_logs
  • http_status_codes
  • regexp_capture(<string>, <regex>)

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page