Lumberjack - 👓 log viewer for Application Insights

Lumberjack is an open source log viewer for reading exceptions and traces written to Microsoft Application Insights.

The app gives you a graphical interface to view, navigate and query your logs.

It will give you an overview of your logs with a chart that shows you amount of traces vs errors & warnings. .

Features

• Fast Querying - Lumberjack runs the queries on your Microsoft Application Insights over rest.
• Fast rendering - We use backgroundworkers to parse the query result and to make sure the UI allows smooth scrolling through thousands of rows.
• Graph overview so you can easily spot outliers and context.
• Support for hashtags - if your trace message contains #something you can click and immediately search for the hasthag.
• Select & grep - Select any text and hit ctrl+enter to grep for that text.
• Search/filter property - Filter for any property, e.g. client_City:Dublin.
• Exclude filter - use - to exclude logs from your search, e.g. -client_City:Dublin.
• Auto refresh mode - Automatically refresh the logs every 60 seconds, perfect for dashboard screens.
• Clickable OperationID - to quickly view related logs and errors.
• Supports multiple App insights apps

Hotkeys

• enter: Refresh/run the query
• shift+left: Go back in the query history (Also available through browser back button)
• shift+right: Go forward in query history
• ctrl+enter: Grep with currently selected text
• ctrl+click: Open details view for row by ctrl+clicking on it

Custom queries

Lumberjack allows you to inject custom query text to the @@-property or the shorthand @ for simple customdimension properties.
For example:

• @@:"duration > 100"
• @@:"customDimensions.elapsedMilliseconds >= 900"
• @@:"customDimensions['elapsed'] > 100 and customDimensions['requestVerb'] == 'POST'"

Since filtering on custom dimensions is common, it has a shortcut: @:"elapsedMilliseconds >= 900". This shortcut will only work for simple scenarios where you filter on one condition and the customDimension-name does not include spaces. For advanced custom querying, use the @@-syntax.

Examples of customdimension queries:

• @:"elapsed > 100"
• @:"CorrelationId == 'abc'"
• @:"CorrelationId startswith 'x1'"

To get started using it

1. Clone the repo
2. Install dependencies with yarn
3. Run yarn start.
4. Enter your Application Insights AppID and API key in settings.