If you're open to new tools, the latest version of the Logfile Navigator (lnav) supports remote hosts over ssh: https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-file

If you're open to new tools, the latest version of the Logfile Navigator (lnav) supports remote hosts over ssh: https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-files.html https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-files.html The main advantages of lnav over multitail is that it collates log files by time and does syntax highlighting. There are many other features as well -- https://lnav.org/features https://lnav.org/features