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Re:Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale by 10987654321 on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:50AM (#34273270)
Hmmm, it doesn't say in https://lnav.org/features#automatic-log-format-detection but i see that at least json (and xml) is mentioned under the pretty-printing header.

You would know what is supported what with you being the author, just saying that the docs aren't super clear from a quick glance :).

And yes, I second the suggestion to focus on JSON. The main benefit of logfmt is that it's simpler for a human to parse directly but in general you probably shouldn't aim for that so..

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Re:Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale by tstack on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:15PM (#34277593)
> Hmmm, it doesn't say in https://lnav.org/features#automatic-log-format-detection but i see that at least json (and xml) is mentioned under the pretty-printing header.

Yes, I should mention it on the features page. It's currently only mentioned in the main docs:

https://docs.lnav.org/en/latest/formats.html

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