# Announcing some improvements to `renovate-pretty-log-tui`

> Source: <https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/renovate-pretty-log/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss>
> Published: 2026-08-17 20:47:36+00:00

As I've blogged about before, [I've written a tool for improving the experience of working with Renovate's debug logs](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/05/18/renovate-pretty-log/), providing a more targeted experience for viewing the logs.

While there are a few options out there at the moment, including part of our products at Mend, it's also nice having an agnostic tool I can use across different products, or where a customer or a user has provided logs to us.

Last week, I finally sat down to listing out some of the key improvements I'd like to have completed on `renovate-pretty-log-tui`

. As I'm not that familiar with Bubble Tea, which it's based on, I decided to set Claude Opus and Claude Fable on the work, as well as seeing if they could see any additional improvements.

I've just shipped [v0.6.0 of my renovate-pretty-log-tui and renovate-pretty-log utilities](https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/renovate-pretty-log/-/releases/v0.6.0), including a whole host of changes - check out the release notes for more.

Some of the key changes can be seen in this Asciicast:

As you can see, there's now a summary view, and an improved UX for viewing the logs.

I'm still working on how this works on smaller screens (i.e. in a Tmux pane) but it works nicely when it's rendered on a half-screen window size.

In this, we also surface errors more clearly, i.e.

Although I'd mostly completed this last week, I needed to put [the last touches to the commit messages](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/).

With [the GitHub outage today](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597), I decided to finish getting these changes complete, as they've very useful for working with debug logs.

I'd also decided to add `renovate-pretty-log -html`

option, which allows converting a debug log into [a single-page, self-contained HTML file](/casts/2026-08-renovate-pretty-log/renovate-debug-out.html) that allows reviewing a very similar view of the local tools, but in the browser.