Chipmunk
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Chipmunk, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Chipmunk's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Chipmunk | Free | Desktop application; file size limited by available disk space |
The facts
Each one read from Chipmunk's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Attachments
- DLT trace inspection supports embedded attachments, including media and text that can be viewed in the app or exported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Automotive formats
- Built-in support includes DLT and SomeIp traces, including DLT embedded attachments and DLT content extracted from SomeIp packets.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Capture formats
- DLT traces can be inspected as standalone files or within pcap and pcapng network captures.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Charts
- Users can define regular expressions to capture metrics and create charts that update as streamed data arrives.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The CLI processes input from TCP, UDP, and files, supports DLT parsing, and can write binary or text output.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI filter limit
- CLI filtering with exported GUI presets is supported only for text output; combining a preset with binary output is rejected.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
- File size
- The project says Chipmunk has no file size limit and is limited by available disk space.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Prebuilt releases are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the app can also be installed from source with Cargo.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project documents a CLI tool and plugin development and integration support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The documentation highlights automotive log and network trace analysis, including DLT and SomeIp workflows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Large files
- The documentation says Chipmunk uses no caching or unnecessary copying and is limited by available disk space.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The public GitHub repository identifies its license as Apache-2.0.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Log collection
- It can collect logs from TCP, UDP, serial ports, and the output of a running command or program.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Log pipelines
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Media
- Embedded image, video, audio, and text attachments can be viewed in the app or exported to disk.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- Chipmunk supports WebAssembly component plugins, including parser and byte-source plugins that developers can build in Rust or other languages that compile to WASM.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Chipmunk is a native desktop log viewer and analysis tool that supports files without a stated file-size limit.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search
- Users can save and reuse filter sets, label filters with colors, and see search results update as new data arrives.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- macOS limitation
- Release 4.4.0 is temporarily unavailable as a signed macOS package due to notarization issues; release 4.3.0 remains available as a signed macOS release.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- Prebuilt desktop releases are documented for macOS, Windows, and Linux; the page lists package and portable archive options for each.checked 11 Oct 2026
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