jviewer

Simple realtime viewer for journald.

This project was created as example of streaming data from flask application.

Additional requirements

Any GNU/Linux distribution based on systemd. libsystemd-dev or it's equivalent must be installed in your system.

Run the application

First of all, poetry needs to be installed. On most GNU/Linux systems just run this command:

python3 -m pip install --user poetry

Then, install project dependencies:

poetry install

Finally, run the application:

poetry run flask run

After application startup, it will be available at localhost:5000.

Usage

Just type systemd unit name in field on index page and click submit.

Tests

poetry run python -m pytest

Run with gunicorn in production

WARNING: To work normally with this application gunicorn must be used with async, gevent for example, or threaded worker - gthread.

Just copy .secrets.toml.example to .secrets.toml and run:

poetry run gunicorn jviewer.wsgi