DevLogBus

Quickstart

DevLogBus is made for real-time log viewing during full-stack development. It coalesces backend/service logs, CLI/TUI records, Chrome browser events, Linux journald, direct HTTP records, and SDK records into one local viewer.

This quickstart uses release binaries or package managers. You do not need Go, Node, npm, or a source checkout.

Install

Homebrew on macOS or Linux:

brew install dan-sherwin/tap/devlogbus

Scoop on Windows:

scoop bucket add dan-sherwin https://github.com/dan-sherwin/scoop-bucket
scoop install devlogbus

Debian or Ubuntu:

echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://dan-sherwin.github.io/devlogbus-linux-repo/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devlogbus.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install devlogbus

Fedora, RHEL, Rocky Linux, or compatible systems:

sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/devlogbus.repo https://dan-sherwin.github.io/devlogbus-linux-repo/rpm/devlogbus.repo
sudo dnf install devlogbus

Alpine:

echo "https://dan-sherwin.github.io/devlogbus-linux-repo/alpine/$(apk --print-arch)" | sudo tee -a /etc/apk/repositories
sudo apk update
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted devlogbus

When the WinGet manifest has been accepted upstream, Windows users can also install with:

winget install DanSherwin.DevLogBus

The package-manager commands install:

devlogbusd
devlogbus
devlogbus-journal-bridge

See Package Managers for package repositories, optional signature verification, and release packaging details.

Manual Archive Install

You can also download the matching archive from the GitHub release page:

devlogbus_<version>_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
devlogbus_<version>_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
devlogbus_<version>_linux_arm64.tar.gz
devlogbus_<version>_linux_amd64.tar.gz
devlogbus_<version>_windows_arm64.zip
devlogbus_<version>_windows_amd64.zip

Use the ARM archive on Apple Silicon Macs and ARM Windows VMs. Use the AMD64 archive on Intel/AMD machines.

macOS or Linux manual install:

mkdir -p ~/devlogbus
tar -xzf devlogbus_<version>_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz -C ~/devlogbus --strip-components 1
export PATH="$HOME/devlogbus:$PATH"

Windows PowerShell manual install:

Expand-Archive .\devlogbus_<version>_windows_arm64.zip C:\DevLogBus
$env:PATH = "C:\DevLogBus;$env:PATH"

Start The Daemon

devlogbusd run

The default broker endpoint is:

The browser UI and HTTP API listen on:

http://127.0.0.1:7423/

Open that URL in a browser. The page should show the live DevLogBus viewer.

Emit A Test Record

In another terminal:

devlogbus emit --source demo --level warn --message "catalog unavailable" --attr service=billing

You should see the record in the browser UI. You can also tail it:

devlogbus tail --source demo --replay 10

Install Browser Tap Locally

Browser Tap is the Chrome extension that publishes browser console, runtime, browser log, and network events to devlogbusd.

Until the Chrome Web Store listing is live:

  1. Download or clone the DevLogBus repository.
  2. Open chrome://extensions.
  3. Enable Developer mode.
  4. Click Load unpacked.
  5. Select extensions/chrome-devlogbus.
  6. Open a normal web page.
  7. Click the DevLogBus Browser Tap toolbar button.
  8. Click Attach.

Trigger a console message or network request in the tab. Browser records should appear in DevLogBus next to backend and CLI records.

Stop The Daemon

Foreground runs stop with Ctrl+C.

On Linux systems installed as a service:

sudo systemctl stop devlogbusd.service

See Linux for service install details and Windows for Windows platform notes.

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