/colorize_cloudwatch_logs

Chrome extension to colorize Amazon Cloudwatch Logs

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Colorize CloudWatch Logs

This is a Google Chrome extension. You can install this extension by this address: Chrome Web Store.

The purpose of this extension is to group logs visually on AWS CloudWatch. There are three rules:

  • Set a different background color for each log group of AWS Lambda invocation. Therefore, you can easily recognize beginning, body and end of the logs of the same invocation. Grouping AWS Lambda log
  • Set font wieght of lines having REPORT, [ERROR] and [Error keywords to bold. Bold REPORT and ERROR log
  • Set color of ANSI terminal codes in the logs. (by @oguimbal) Colorized ANSI terminal codes

Further, there is two functionality for better log viewing experience (by @oguimbal):

  • Switching to fullscreen,
  • Refreshing the logs periodically to load new items. Fullscreen and Follow Tail

This extension doesn't collect any user and web page information. It only runs on AWS CloudWatch Logs web page. It is free to use.

Overhead is very low, colorize operation takes ~7 milliseconds, listen operation for new event logs takes just ~0.5 milliseconds in every second.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome. Please follow the standart.js convention if you want to contribute.

Contributors

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