User Guide

This guide describes the most common usecases for using chipmunk.

Bookmarks

Add bookmarks to mark and remember important log entries. Jump between bookmarks with shortcuts (j and k).

Commenting

Comment line(s) of the log to have additional information about specific places in the file.

To better understand what's going on in a large logfile, it can be helpful to visualize data over time. chipmunk let's you define regular expressions that match a number and to use this expression to capture a value throughout a logfile.

Concatenating logfiles

chipmunk can combine multiple log file. This is useful for example when you just want to reassamble a logfile that were stored in parts.

Merging

Merging is useful if you have several log files e.g. from different devices/processors and you want combine them by merging according to their timestamps.