I have no doubt that journald is slower, and I have no real preference for it. The request for journald support goes back to it being the default on most distros these days. I have to interact with a variety of different servers in different environments, most of which are not managed by myself, and hence I have to interact with was previously setup... which is usually the default config provided by the distro.
My role is classified as DevOps consulting, working for several different companies, each with their own unique setup and teams... but yeah, it's basically glorified sysadmin work ;-). On the plus side though, I get to see the realities of internal company tech stacks, and that the default settings often are chosen over better solutions.
Thanks again for considering journald, and at the same time, don't forget that it's your project at the end of the day... you can always disregard feature requests if it's not a direction you want to head in. Though in this case, I do believe journald support would get your tool more traction with a larger audience in the long term.
Thanks for sharing! Good to know that nerdlog turns out to be helpful not only for devs (the original use case), but also for DevOps :)
Fyi, support for journalctl was added to master, in case you wanted to try it out. I didn't yet add automated tests with the mocked journalctl, but my manual tests show that it's working fine.
If a system doesn't have either `/var/log/messages` or `/var/log/syslog`, nerdlog will now resort to `journalctl` by default.
It can also be selected explicitly by specifying `journalctl` as the file, e.g. `myserver.com:22:journalctl`.
Looking good so far! Now it just needs localhost-without-SSH enabled by default (so that as a new user I test out nerdlog immediately without having to think about which server to connect it to), and your initial onboarding/out-of-the-box experience will be ready for a very wide audience! :-)
I see, interesting. If you don't mind me asking, is it a sysadmin kind of job? Just trying to understand the use case better.
Regardless, journalctl support is the single most requested feature, so yeah I'll at least try to make that happen; hopefully on the upcoming weekend if I'm lucky.