What does HackerNews think of saw?

Fast, multi-purpose tool for AWS CloudWatch Logs

Language: Go

#10 in Amazon Web Services
#52 in Command line interface
#17 in JSON
Ask HN: Is there an alternative CloudWatch UI? | Oct 2022
It's not a GUI, but saw[0] was my go to for grepping, streaming, and searching CloudWatch logs.

[0] https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw

Ask HN: How do you read AWS Cloudwatch logs | May 2022
Saw

https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw

S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal | Oct 2019
Cool. I had a similar use case and created a tool to stream colorized logs from CloudWatch to your terminal that is a little more ergonomic to use than this:

https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw

Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? | Nov 2018
Saw: https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw -- Stream (tail -f) colorized AWS CloudWatch logs
CloudWatch Is of the Devil, but I Must Use It | Oct 2018
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Yeah, don't use the web UI. An alternative to awslogs is saw, https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw. Me likey..
Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture? | Jun 2018
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Regarding the tooling: I hated debugging Lambdas via CloudWatch logs when using them for Hustle, it drove me to drink.

I eventually got upset enough that I made a tool to stream the cloudwatch logs to the terminal and colorize, indent + nicely format json output:

https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw