Sharing your system logs online may be annoying: you either upload a bunch of screenshots or pipe them to a text file using complex terminal commands (coloring and metadata not preserved). This tool aims to make uploading logs without loosing highlighting and metadata as easy as possible for any non-tech savvy user.
Warning
This tool is in public alpha phase. Don't expect generated URLs to be compatible with future versions.
Try it online: https://raw.githack.com/carbon-starlight/sharelogs/main/journalview.html | short link: https://tinyurl.com/y874d745
- I'm working on a switch to a better compressing algorithm called Kanzi: it will make permanent URLs 30-50% smaller than the one currenly utilized.
- I actually need help with figuring out how to run the
kanzi.wasmcompressor from client-side JS: in particular, I can't figure out a way to pass files/byte arrays to it. If you know your way around wasm, your contribution is welcome.
- I actually need help with figuring out how to run the
- Seveal visual themes, including 70s retro and Y2K.
- More logging systems supported: not only UNIX's syslog, but Windows as well.
- Pick charset for compressed data encoding that does not break most non-standard, yet common highlighting engines.
- More options for forum administrators: more ability to set sharing properties in URL parameters.
- Server for getting temporal short URLs, termbin style.
- Ability to password-protect contents of a short URL?
- Sometimes huge binary blobs are encountered (core dumps?). Learn how to read.
- Allow to insert custom instructions to read logs from arbitrary file to query. For software not utilising system-wide logging.