Application Management

Papertrail ANSI Log Colorization examples

This document shows how to set log colors with ANSI escape code examples

First published date

6/25/2021 6:10 PM

Last published date

6/25/2021 6:10 PM

Overview

Colors makes logs more readable. While this guide shows how to colorize logs with CSS and log frameworks, this doc has simple examples how to colorize using a different method.

Product section

Papertrail

Cause

A quick reference for setting log/text colors in the syslog message field.

Resolution

Make sure to enable 'Colorize Logs' in Settings > Event Viewer

Here are the examples:

<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[31mRED\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[32mGREEN\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[34mBLUE\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[31mR\e[32mG\e[34mB\e[0m color
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[36mCyan\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[33mYellow\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - This is \e[35mMagenta\e[0m
<14>1 - host prog - - - \e[36mCyan\e[0m, \e[33mYellow\e[0m, \e[35mMagenta\e[0m, \e[37mWhite

A screenshot of the output from the Papertrail Event viewer:

Color display in Papertrail Event Viewer

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