Alternatives to loki
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. loki itself: install loki.
hl
A fast and powerful log viewer and processor that converts JSON logs or logfmt logs into a clear human-readable format
grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
gcviewer
Fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Tagtraum stopped development in 2008, I aim to improve support for Sun's / Oracle's java 1.6+ garbage collector
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
xclogparser
Tool to parse Xcode and xcodebuild logs stored in the xcactivitylog format
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
lazyjournal
TUI for viewing logs from journald, auditd, file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks and Kubernetes pods with support for log highlig
bash-preexec
⚡ preexec and precmd functions for Bash just like Zsh
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than loki — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
loki is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.