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📣 vsroy

What is an simple logging aggregator?


I'm running a NodeJS server that currently prints nice logs to the console using the `debug` package. As the server gets more busy, I would like to print my logs as pretty graphs (N users on the platform at Y time, etc.)

It seems like the correct thing to use is Grafana + Loki, or something like the elastic stack. But these are far too heavyweight. Is there some dead simple solution I can use to visualize my logs well.

Anything that runs in a docker container should be OK.


  👤 jmprspret Accepted Answer ✓
I have no solution to this, but I'd also like to know. These solutions really are heavyweight. All I personally want is a minimal syslog aggregator that can output in formats visualisation software like Grafana can understand.

It's pretty annoying how heavyweight these systems are (even Grafana by itself).