saw
Fast, multi-purpose tool for AWS CloudWatch Logs (by TylerBrock)
stern
β Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern (by stern)
saw | stern | |
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4 | 16 | |
1,387 | 2,919 | |
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0.0 | 6.8 | |
about 1 year ago | 8 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
saw
Posts with mentions or reviews of saw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-28.
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Lambda recursive loop detection - but not (yet) for S3
We use saw to tail lambda log:
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Ask HN: Is there an alternative CloudWatch UI?
It's not a GUI, but saw[0] was my go to for grepping, streaming, and searching CloudWatch logs.
[0] https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw
- Ask HN: How do you read AWS Cloudwatch logs
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This cloudwatch UI sucks
Also, for something closer to tail, check out: https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw
stern
Posts with mentions or reviews of stern.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.
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βΈοΈ Kubernetes: From your docker-compose file to a cluster with Kompose
deploy: stage: deploy image: alpine/k8s:1.29.1 variables: NAMESPACE: $CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG before_script: # init namespace - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE || true # download tools - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern && stern --version - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.32.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/kompose && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/kompose && kompose version # show logs asynchronously. Timeout to avoid hanging indefinitely when an error occurs in script section - timeout 1200 stern -n $NAMESPACE "app-" --tail=0 --color=always & # in background, tail new logs if any (current and incoming) pod with this regex as name - timeout 1200 kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get events --watch-only & # in background, tail new events in background script: # first delete CrashLoopBackOff pods, polluting logs - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE delete pod `kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get pods --selector app.kubernetes.io/component=$MODULE | awk '$3 == "CrashLoopBackOff" {print $1}'` || true # now deploying - kompose convert --out k8s/ - kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f k8s/ - echo -e "\e[93;1mWaiting for the new app version to be fully operational...\e[0m" # waiting for successful deployment - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-db - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-back - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-front # on any error before this line, the script will still wait for these threads to complete, so the initial timeout is important. Adding these commands to after_script does not help - pkill stern || true - pkill kubectl || true after_script: # show namespace content - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get deploy,service,ingress,pod
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stern VS stern - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 11 Dec 2023
The old repo is dead
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π¦ GitLab CI: 10+ Best Practices to Avoid Widespread Anti-patterns
node-and-git: image: node:18.10-alpine before_script: - apk --no-cache add git kubectl-and-stern: image: alpine/k8s:1.22.13 before_script: # install stern - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern playwright-and-kubectl: image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.35.1-focal before_script: # install kubectl - curl --show-error --silent --location --remote-name https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.25.3/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x ./kubectl && mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/
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K9s: A lazier way to manage Kubernetes Clusters
I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.
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What k8s related tool you wish you knew earlier?
Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes https://github.com/stern/stern
- What's your "IDE" of choice nowadays?
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
stern v1.22.0
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Getting started with kubectl plugins
Link to GitHub Repository
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Julia Evans: Tips for Analyzing Logs
If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern
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What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming
What are some alternatives?
When comparing saw and stern you can also consider the following projects:
LocalStack - π» A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
kubetail - Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time
kail - kubernetes log viewer
awesome-k8s-resources - A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.
viddy - π A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.
cw - The best way to tail AWS CloudWatch Logs from your terminal
colorstyle - colorStyle is a library of styles for command-line text.
openlens-node-pod-menu - Node and pod menus for OpenLens
jzon - A golang json library inspired by jsoniter
stern - β Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes