Installation

Run this one-liner in your terminal:

curl -L "https://humanlog.io/install.sh" | bash

This will:

Install the humanlog binary into your $PATH
Launch the local observability engine as a background service
Register a menu-bar/tray icon for easy access

Verify Your Install

humanlog --version

You should see something like:

humanlog version x.y.z

Supported Platforms

humanlog is a cross-platform binary, however, not all features work on all platforms.

| Feature | macOS | Linux | Windows | | ----------------------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | | Parsing, prettifying | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Localhost observability | ✅ | ✅ | | | Query engine | ✅ | ✅ | | | Service install | ✅ | | | | Menu bar | ✅ | | |

Linux users

On Linux, the service isn't started automatically. To start the observability engine, run:

humanlog service run

This launches the local debugging environment where you can analyze logs and traces.

Next Steps

👉 Basic Usage →
💻 CLI Reference →

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