logflow README

Motivation

It's often slow and cumbersome job to understand the flow of a log file to be able to debug an issue. While debuggers are helpful, they are very slow and sometimes an overkill for just a simple understanding of a log file. Remeber, it's as good as your logs get.

Features

1. Logflow helps you to follow the sequence of a logfile by opening up the files (with the line number) of each log line.
2. Press shift+up in the keyboard to go to next line, and press shift+down to go to the previous.
3. The current processed log line is printed in the debug console.

Usage

1. Create a config.json file, to specify the log file path, and the path of the source directories (the projects that includes the files that the logflow will search for). It has the following format.

{
    "directoryPath": [
        "/Users/aaboudeghedy/Desktop/fcd",
        "/Users/aaboudeghedy/Desktop/l_cny",
        "/Users/aaboudeghedy/Desktop/dtkresclient"
    ],
    "logFilePath": "/Users/aaboudeghedy/Desktop/test/logflow/log2.txt"
}

2. After setting that up, press cmnd + shift + p, and type logflow, and give the absolute path of your config file.
3. Now you can press shift+up or shift+down to step through the log file.