Application Settings

Feature toggles and general behavior settings for Graytool.

Structure

interface AppSettings {
  enabled: boolean;                       // Master toggle
  showMessageDetailButton: boolean;       // Message detail button
  jsonViewerEnabled: boolean;             // JSON viewer feature
  keyboardShortcutsEnabled: boolean;      // Keyboard shortcuts
  searchHistoryEnabled: boolean;          // Search history capture
}

Setting Details

Extension Enabled (Master Toggle)

Turns the entire Graytool on/off. When disabled, no features work.

Value	Behavior
true	All features active (default)
false	Extension completely disabled

Show Message Detail Button

Controls the visibility of the 🔍 message detail button on log rows.

Value	Behavior
true	Detail button visible on each row (default)
false	Detail button hidden

Clicking this button opens the JSON viewer.

JSON Viewer Enabled

Enables/disables the JSON viewer modal.

Value	Behavior
true	JSON viewer can be opened (default)
false	JSON viewer disabled

Keyboard Shortcuts Enabled

Enables/disables keyboard shortcuts.

Value	Behavior
true	Shortcuts work (default)
false	Shortcuts disabled

Affected shortcuts:

• Ctrl+H / Cmd+H — Search history panel
• Esc — Close JSON viewer
• / — Focus search in JSON viewer
• ↑ / ↓ — Navigate search results

Search History Enabled

Controls automatic capture of Graylog search queries.

Value	Behavior
true	Searches are recorded (default)
false	No search recording

Default Values

{
  enabled: true,
  showMessageDetailButton: true,
  jsonViewerEnabled: true,
  keyboardShortcutsEnabled: true,
  searchHistoryEnabled: true,
}

Settings Page

You can control all these toggles from the "Settings" tab of the settings page.

Each setting change:

1. Is automatically saved
2. Synced via chrome.storage.sync
3. Sends a CONFIG_UPDATED message to all open tabs
4. Content scripts reload with the new configuration