Caddy Logs CLI

Caddy Logs CLI is a tool that filters the access logs of Caddy Server. It uses https://github.com/AliAlhajji/caddylogs to filter the logs.

Install

go install github.com/AliAlhajji/caddylogs-cli@latest

Or download the source code and build it yourself:

go get github.com/AliAlhajji/caddylogs-cli

Usage

caddylogs-cli [options] <path_to_log_file>

Here I am assuming there is access logs files called access.log

To show all the logs without filtering:

caddylogs-cli access.log

Available filters:

--first <n> or -f <n>: get the last n records of the filtered logs.

caddylogs-cli --first 10 access.log

--last <n> or -l <n>: get the last n records of the filtered logs.

caddylogs-cli --last 10 access.log

--info or -i: get only the logs of level info

caddylogs-cli --info access.log

--error or -e: get only the logs of level error

caddylogs-cli --error access.log

--url-contains <value> or -u <value>: get the logs where requested URL contains value:

caddylogs-cli -url-contains ".jpg" access.log

--referer-contains <value> or -r <value>: get the logs where request referer contains value:

caddylogs-cli --referer-contains "twitter.com" access.log

--logger-is <value> or -g <value>: get the logs where the used logger is exactly value:

caddylogs-cli --logger-is "http.log.access.log0" access.log

--status-code <value> or -s <value>: get the logs where the the repsonse status code is value:

caddylogs-cli --status-code 404 access.log

--header <header=value> or -x <header=value>: get the logs where the the request has a header equal to value:

caddylogs-cli --header key1=value1 --header key2=value2  access.log

This option can be used multiple times

--count or -c: print only the number of logs that match the filters:

caddylogs-cli --count access.log

--reverse: print the results in reverse (most recent first):

caddylogs-cli --reverse access.log

You can use a combination of these options to filter the logs more flexible (except for --info and --error, they cannot be used together):

caddylogs-cli --info --url-contains "about.html" --referer-contains "home.html" --first 10 access.log

This will return the first 10 logs that:

are info logs
have "about.html" in the request url
have "home.html" in the request's referer.

To get only the number of these logs:

caddylogs-cli --info --url-contains "about.html" --referer-contains "home.html" --count access.log

Note

This tool is was created for fun to filter the access logs of my website. It might look simple and primitive, but I find it very useful. I am sharing the code hoping that it will help someone else, or that someone else will find it interesting to extend it with more functionalities.

This tool uses https://github.com/AliAlhajji/caddylogs module to filter the logs. I decided to separate the code into its own module to make it easier for me to re-use in other ideas, such as a Telegram bot that send the filtered lgos on-demmand without having to access the server myself.