Plain text log tail feature request

[kensmith]

Just started using Render today and I'm a fan. Super easy to set up. And, I love that your cli is written in go with all of its charmbraclety goodness. I would love to be able to just tail the raw logs to the console so that I can grep, parse, colorize, etc. using my own scripts. For example, in dev, I use this jq monstrosity to colorize the logs:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

highlight=
if [[ "$1" != "" ]]
then
  highlight="$1"
fi

jq --unbuffered -r -R -M 'fromjson? | .' \
  | awk -v highlight="$highlight" 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} { \
      if ($0 ~ /msg/) { \
        line = $0; \
        if (highlight != "") { \
          gsub(highlight,"\033[1;33m" highlight "\033[0m", line); \
        } \
        print "\033[1;32m" line "\033[0m"; \
      } else { \
        line = $0; \
        gsub(/INFO/,"\033[1;32mINFO\033[0m", line); \
        gsub(/WARN/,"\033[1;33mWARN\033[0m", line); \
        gsub(/ERROR/,"\033[1;31mERROR\033[0m", line); \
        if (highlight != "") { \
          gsub(highlight,"\033[1;33m" highlight "\033[0m", line); \
        } \
        print line \
      } \
    }'

It'd be dreamy if I could do something like

render logs -f | ./bin/pretty-jq

and get the familiar log view that I enjoy when running locally.

[jakemalachowski]

You should be able to do this by passing in -o json to your logs command. Does this address use case?

[kensmith]

I got what I wanted from this

render logs -r <id> -o text --tail|cut -f 4- -d' '|./bin/pretty-jq

is it possible to avoid printing the timestamp? I already have the timestamp in my slog output. That would avoid needing the cut part.