View More Log by Default?

[TheWaterbug]

When I open the Blue Iris log from the local console, it display the log entries since the last BI restart.

I have it set to log and store the last 30 days, which it dutifully does in a text file. If I click Open File, then it opens the saved log in NotePad, which is not as useful as the built-in log viewer, because it lacks filtering and sorting.

Is there a way to ask BI to natively display the last N days of log entries instead of just since startup?

 

[Bruce_H]

If you set the log file s as shown below, the log file will never span more than 24hrs

 

[jaydeel]

I'm partial to weekly log files '%Y%m.txt'.
They are reasonably sized and fast to load and inspect using scripts.

 

[Bruce_H]

Is there a way to ask BI to natively display the last N days of log entries instead of just since startup?

To the best of my knowledge there is nothing in BI that would give you that ability, you would have to create some sort of script to parse the existing log files, way beyond me current knowledge level, and I have no motivation to start to learn at my age!

 

[jaydeel]

Is there a way to ask BI to natively display the last N days of log entries instead of just since startup?

In case it helps, here's an undocumented HTTP Interface command that you can use to display the last N entries in the messages log (a rollup of the logfile entries).

/admin/mlist?latest=N

Ken added this at my request in March 2022 (v5.5.6.1).
It seems he never got around to adding it to the Help PDF. I'll send him a reminder.

Example shown below.
The columns are the same as you see in Status > Log tab