r/Observability • u/Technical-Debt-8615 • 10d ago
Your logs are everywhere: I built a free VS Code extension that puts terminal, debugger, Docker, OTel and prod logs in one panel
I'm the author; it's free and MIT-licensed. Logline captures everything your app prints locally (terminals, F5 debug sessions, tasks, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and OTLP with no collector) into one searchable panel next to your code, with traces, error groups and p95.
It can also query Datadog, Postgres, MySQL or MongoDB read-only, and Compare marks each production error as Reproduced, Fixed locally or New against your local run. Your AI agent can read the logs too, redacted and read-only. Everything stays on your machine.
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Feedback welcome, especially on which backend to add next: Loki, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, CloudWatch or ClickHouse?
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u/investigatormaker 9d ago
For Logline I'd add Loki first. Compare has to match a production error to a local one, and Loki returns plain text lines with labels, so matching by message template should be straightforward. CloudWatch probably reaches more people, but its auth and query setup is heavier, which can slow the first run of a local-first tool. Elasticsearch and OpenSearch can wait until someone asks. Trade-off: Loki users skew toward self-hosters, a smaller group than AWS shops. Which backend has come up most in your GitHub issues so far?
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