View & share system logs online

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

TODO:

• 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.wasm compressor 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.
• 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.

Copying

Usage of the code is allowed under MIT (X11) license. If you fork this project, please, change the name for the fork to be distinguishable. “Better Sharelogs” or “SendLogs” are fine, “Sharelogs-NG” is fine if you take this project after my abandonment, “Sharelogs” or “Sharelogs 2.0” are not.

Note

Move to a copyleft license is being considered. Submit your arguments for or against and vote here: #1