diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8532d62..1d956d6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c4872d67bab6358e59559027aa3b9157c53d9358c51423c17554809a8858e0f8"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cassowary"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df8670b8c7b9dae1793364eafadf7239c40d669904660c5960d74cfd80b46a53"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cast"
 version = "0.2.7"
@@ -931,6 +937,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "numtoa"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b8f8bdf33df195859076e54ab11ee78a1b208382d3a26ec40d142ffc1ecc49ef"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "once_cell"
 version = "1.8.0"
@@ -1252,6 +1264,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_termios"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8440d8acb4fd3d277125b4bd01a6f38aee8d814b3b5fc09b3f2b825d37d3fe8f"
+dependencies = [
+ "redox_syscall",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
 version = "1.5.4"
@@ -1551,16 +1572,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "lazy_static",
  "notify",
+ "parking_lot",
  "preserves-schema",
  "structopt",
  "syndicate",
  "syndicate-macros",
+ "termion",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-subscriber",
+ "tui",
  "tungstenite",
 ]
 
@@ -1578,6 +1602,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi 0.3.9",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termion"
+version = "1.5.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "077185e2eac69c3f8379a4298e1e07cd36beb962290d4a51199acf0fdc10607e"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "numtoa",
+ "redox_syscall",
+ "redox_termios",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "textwrap"
 version = "0.11.0"
@@ -1793,6 +1829,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tui"
+version = "0.16.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "39c8ce4e27049eed97cfa363a5048b09d995e209994634a0efc26a14ab6c0c23"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "cassowary",
+ "termion",
+ "unicode-segmentation",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tungstenite"
 version = "0.13.0"
diff --git a/syndicate-server/Cargo.toml b/syndicate-server/Cargo.toml
index b7c7694..8c39276 100644
--- a/syndicate-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/syndicate-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ chrono = "0.4"
 futures = "0.3"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 notify = "4.0"
+parking_lot = "0.11"
 structopt = "0.3"
 
 tungstenite = "0.13"
@@ -33,3 +34,6 @@ tokio-util = "0.6"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.2"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
+
+tui = "0.16"
+termion = "1.5"
diff --git a/syndicate-server/src/main.rs b/syndicate-server/src/main.rs
index 0154cbb..6571a7f 100644
--- a/syndicate-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/syndicate-server/src/main.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ mod language;
 mod lifecycle;
 mod protocol;
 mod services;
+mod ui;
 
 mod schemas {
     include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/src/schemas/mod.rs"));
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ struct ServerConfig {
     #[structopt(short = "c", long)]
     config: Vec<PathBuf>,
 
+    #[structopt(short = "u", long)]
+    ui: bool,
+
     #[structopt(long)]
     no_banner: bool,
 }
@@ -54,7 +58,11 @@ struct ServerConfig {
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     let config = Arc::new(ServerConfig::from_args());
 
-    syndicate::convenient_logging()?;
+    if config.ui {
+        ui::start()?;
+    } else {
+        syndicate::convenient_logging()?;
+    }
 
     if !config.no_banner && !config.inferior {
         const BRIGHT_GREEN: &str = "\x1b[92m";
diff --git a/syndicate-server/src/ui/mod.rs b/syndicate-server/src/ui/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07960d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/syndicate-server/src/ui/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+use parking_lot::RwLock;
+
+use std::collections::VecDeque;
+use std::io;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
+
+use syndicate::value::IOValue;
+use syndicate::value::Map;
+use syndicate::value::NestedValue;
+use syndicate::value::Value;
+
+use termion::raw::IntoRawMode;
+
+use tracing::Event;
+use tracing::Level;
+use tracing::Metadata;
+use tracing::field::Field;
+use tracing::span::Attributes;
+use tracing::span::Id;
+use tracing::span::Record;
+
+use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+use tracing_subscriber::layer::Context;
+
+use tui::Terminal;
+use tui::backend::TermionBackend;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
+struct FieldsSnapshot(Map<&'static str, IOValue>);
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct EventSnapshot {
+    spans: Vec<(&'static Metadata<'static>, FieldsSnapshot)>,
+    event_metadata: &'static Metadata<'static>,
+    event_fields: FieldsSnapshot,
+}
+
+struct LogCollector {
+    dirty: AtomicBool,
+    current_level: Level,
+    minimum_level: Level,
+    history: RwLock<VecDeque<EventSnapshot>>,
+    history_limit: usize,
+}
+
+fn write_fields(f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter, fs: &Map<&'static str, IOValue>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+    for (k, v) in fs.iter() {
+        if let Some(s) = v.value().as_string() {
+            write!(f, "{}={} ", k, s)?;
+        } else {
+            write!(f, "{}={:?} ", k, v)?;
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for EventSnapshot {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        let mut fs = self.event_fields.0.clone();
+        if let Some(m) = fs.remove("message") {
+            match m.value().as_string() {
+                Some(s) => write!(f, "{} ", s)?,
+                None => { fs.insert("message", m); }
+            }
+        }
+        write_fields(f, &fs)?;
+        write!(f, "at {}:{}\n",
+               self.event_metadata.file().unwrap_or("-"),
+               self.event_metadata.line().unwrap_or(0))?;
+        for s in self.spans.iter() {
+            let (m, fs) = s;
+            write!(f, " - in {} ", m.name())?;
+            write_fields(f, &fs.0)?;
+            write!(f, "at {}:{}\n", m.file().unwrap_or("-"), m.line().unwrap_or(0))?;
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+impl FieldsSnapshot {
+    fn push(&mut self, field: &Field, v: IOValue) {
+        let name = field.name();
+        match self.0.remove(name) {
+            None => {
+                self.0.insert(name, v);
+            }
+            Some(o) => match o.value().as_sequence() {
+                Some(vs) => {
+                    let mut vs = vs.clone();
+                    vs.push(v);
+                    self.0.insert(name, IOValue::new(vs));
+                },
+                None => {
+                    self.0.insert(name, IOValue::new(vec![o, v]));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl tracing::field::Visit for FieldsSnapshot {
+    fn record_debug(&mut self, field: &Field, value: &dyn std::fmt::Debug) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(format!("{:?}", value)));
+    }
+    fn record_f64(&mut self, field: &Field, value: f64) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(value));
+    }
+    fn record_i64(&mut self, field: &Field, value: i64) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(value));
+    }
+    fn record_u64(&mut self, field: &Field, value: u64) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(value));
+    }
+    fn record_bool(&mut self, field: &Field, value: bool) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(value));
+    }
+    fn record_str(&mut self, field: &Field, value: &str) {
+        self.push(field, IOValue::new(value));
+    }
+    fn record_error(&mut self, field: &Field, value: &(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)) {
+        let mut r = Value::simple_record("error", 1);
+        r.fields_vec_mut().push(IOValue::new(format!("{}", value)));
+        let r = r.finish();
+        self.push(field, r.wrap());
+    }
+}
+
+impl LogCollector {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        LogCollector {
+            dirty: AtomicBool::new(false),
+            current_level: Level::INFO,
+            minimum_level: Level::TRACE,
+            history: Default::default(),
+            history_limit: 10000,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<S: tracing::Subscriber + for<'a> tracing_subscriber::registry::LookupSpan<'a> + std::fmt::Debug>
+    tracing_subscriber::Layer<S> for LogCollector
+where for<'a> <S as tracing_subscriber::registry::LookupSpan<'a>>::Data: std::fmt::Debug
+{
+    fn enabled(&self, metadata: &Metadata, _ctx: Context<S>) -> bool {
+        metadata.level() <= &self.minimum_level
+    }
+
+    fn new_span(&self, attrs: &Attributes, id: &Id, ctx: Context<S>) {
+        if let Some(s) = ctx.span(id) {
+            let mut snap = FieldsSnapshot::default();
+            attrs.record(&mut snap);
+            s.extensions_mut().insert(snap);
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn on_record(&self, span: &Id, values: &Record, ctx: Context<S>) {
+        if let Some(s) = ctx.span(span) {
+            if let Some(snap) = s.extensions_mut().get_mut::<FieldsSnapshot>() {
+                values.record(snap);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn on_event(&self, event: &Event, ctx: Context<S>) {
+        if event.metadata().level() > &self.current_level {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let mut snap = EventSnapshot {
+            spans: Vec::new(),
+            event_metadata: event.metadata(),
+            event_fields: Default::default(),
+        };
+        event.record(&mut snap.event_fields);
+
+        if let Some(scope) = ctx.event_scope(event) {
+            for s in scope.from_root() {
+                snap.spans.push((
+                    s.metadata(),
+                    s.extensions().get::<FieldsSnapshot>().cloned().unwrap_or_else(FieldsSnapshot::default)
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+
+        println!("{}", &snap);
+
+        let mut history = self.history.write();
+        history.push_front(snap);
+        history.truncate(self.history_limit);
+        self.dirty.store(true, Ordering::Relaxed);
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn start() -> io::Result<()> {
+    let stdout = io::stdout().into_raw_mode()?;
+    let backend = TermionBackend::new(stdout);
+    let mut terminal = Terminal::new(backend)?;
+
+    let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::Registry::default()
+        .with(LogCollector::new());
+    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)
+        .expect("Could not set UI global subscriber");
+
+    Ok(())
+}