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Web App

The browser-only Beastiary app is available at http://beastiary.wytamma.com/web.

This version is designed for quick inspection and sharing of trace files without running a Beastiary server.

Client-side loading

When you load a local log file in the web app, the file is parsed directly in your browser.

Your files do not leave your computer:

  • local files are read from your machine by the browser
  • parsing happens client-side in the web app
  • the file contents are not uploaded to a Beastiary backend

This makes the hosted web version useful for private or ad hoc inspection when you do not want to start a server.

URL-based traces

The web app can also load trace files from a public URL.

Open the Add trace dialog and use the URL files section to add a link to a .log or .csv trace file. Beastiary will fetch that file in the browser and parse it client-side.

This works well for files hosted on GitHub, object storage, or other static file hosts, as long as the URL can be fetched by the browser.

URL traces are synced into the page URL using the traces query parameter.

For example:

https://beastiary.wytamma.com/web/#/main/dashboard?traces=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Wytamma/beastiary/refs/heads/master/backend/tests/data/hcv_coal.log

You can include multiple trace URLs by repeating the parameter.

When someone opens that link, Beastiary will automatically import those trace files into the app.

Notes

  • Local files are not shareable through the page URL because they only exist on your computer.
  • URL traces can be shared because the file can be fetched again by anyone who opens the link.
  • URL loading depends on the remote host allowing browser access to the file.