Disable ansi codes for logs

[zlobniyshurik]

My system use classic text logs. So ansi codes in logs are problem for me.
Now my logs look like this:

.[2m2024-07-10T01:56:51.049606Z.[0m .[32m INFO.[0m .[2mindex_scheduler.[0m.[2m:.[0m A batch of tasks was successfully completed with 1 successful tasks and 0 failed tasks.

Can I choose clear text log format without any fancy things?

[WKoster]

Mine look like #011 and #033[2m etc...

So in the mean time I filter them out with something like:

sed -i 's/#011//g' $log
sed -i 's/#033[2m//g' $log
sed -i 's/#033[0m//g' $log
sed -i 's/#033[32m//g' $log
sed -i 's/#033[34m//g' $log

or probably even with 1 line of code.

note: this (-i) changes the logfile itself!

[zlobniyshurik]

At now I use ugly hack:
Systemd-service, that start meilisearch:
/etc/systemd/system/meilisearch.service

[Unit]
Description=Meilisearch Service
Requires=opt-meilisearch.mount
After=opt-meilisearch.mount

[Service]
User=meilisearch
Group=meilisearch
WorkingDirectory=/opt/meilisearch
#StandardOutput=journal
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/meilisearch/meilisearch.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/meilisearch/meilisearch.log
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c /opt/meilisearch/start_meili.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and bash-script for output filtering:
/opt/meilisearch/start_meili.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd /opt/meilisearch
exec 1> >(stdbuf -oL sed -u -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}(;[0-9]{1,2};?)?)?[mGK]//g")
exec 2>&1
meilisearch --config-file-path="./config.toml"

Far from perfect but its working :)

P.S. In an ideal world, meilisearch would have a setting in its config file to disable color output.

[curquiza]

Hello everyone, I forwarded your feedback to @meilisearch/product-team

[macraig]

Hello! I've transferred the feature request for disabling ansi codes for logs to the Product Feedback & Feature request discussions section to make it visible for other users and gather more requests.

[szepeviktor]

You can use the ansi2txt command from the colorized-logs package (as a work-around).