Announcing logbasset 0.5.0

Introduction logbasset is an open source command-line tool, written in Go, for accessing and analyzing Scalyr logs. It’s a from-scratch rewrite of Scalyr’s original Python client, focused on the read-only operations you actually reach for day to day: query, power-query, numeric-query, facet-query, timeseries-query, and a live tail. Being a single Go binary, it’s trivial to distribute and run — no virtual environment to set up — and it plays nicely with CLI coding agents, which increasingly need reliable command-line access to services. If you want the full background, I covered it in the original release post. What’s new in 0.5.0 Version 0.5.0 is mostly about making logbasset more pleasant and more robust in everyday use. Here are the highlights: Compact output mode with pager integration — browsing large result sets is now far more readable straight from the terminal. Bounded retries with backoff — API requests automatically recover from transient failures instead of giving up.…