We were kind of annoyed by how we weren’t able to access our containers to see logs in an instant. Docker commands are fine, but you need to SSH into the server to be able to do it, and manually specify which container you’d like to check out.

To save some time, we made a tool and we named it darklens. You can use it to check your containers without using SSH keys, entering Docker commands (“oh, shoot, the container I was curious about had - and not _ in it, let’s fix that typo and waste 4 more seconds”) in the terminal, and trying to figure out container configs in unreadable JSON data.

Thought we’d like to show you this tool because it can be helpful for self-hosters and you can give valuable feedback on how we can improve it.

You can check it out on GitHub here:

- darklens on GitHub: https://github.com/dyrector-io/darklens

Have a nice weekend yall!