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Multitail
- robinhoodexe 13y agoI use this a lot for monitoring my home server, really nice tool, especially the colors.
- nevvvermind 13y agoIt's a good tool indeed, but I hate how, when pressing enter to add a delimiter to a big file, the screen starts to flicker.
- durzagott 13y agoLooks very useful, thanks for posting. I'll try using it instead of tail over the next few weeks.
- michaelmior 13y agoThere's also something similar in Python https://github.com/thobbs/multitail-curses https://github.com/thobbs/multitail-curses
- spektom 13y agoThe best feature of MultiTail is that allows following original file names by specifying '-f' flag. Really useful for switching automatically to the needed file after log rotation.
- js2 13y agoBSD/GNU tail do that with -F.
- Taeram 13y agoI use multitail's --mergeall flag daily for stuff like: multitail --mergeall /var/log/apache2/*error.log
- tenfingers 13y agoNothing related to multitail per-se, but: dark blue on black is unreadable. With a lighter blue might be ok, but please don't supply defaults like that.
- Nickoladze 13y agoIt likely depends on your terminal colors.
- tenfingers 13y agoIndeed, but look at the screenshots themselves. This is not something I would "show".
- koffiezet 13y agoGood tool, have been using this for ages. Just don't look at the source code, at least a few years ago when I tried that to fix a bug I encountered, it gave me eye-cancer :P
- turrini 13y agoHave been using this for ages too with fping: http://imagebin.ca/v/1FO4anUn0zyF http://imagebin.ca/v/1FO4anUn0zyF
- baldfat 13y agoI use to use Multitail. Now: TMux, I just have a session in TMux and just attach to the session wehn I need to. Works great.
- tstack 13y agoAnother terminal-based log file viewer with a large feature set is lnav: http://lnav.org/ http://lnav.org/ One of the nice things about lnav is that it indexes the log messages by time and shows a combined view of all the files that are loaded. Other features include: automatic handling of compressed files, querying logs using SQL, a histogram view of messages over time, and more...
- zerd 13y agoThank you for suggesting this. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Like a "command-line splunk". It is also packaged as a staticly linked file, which makes deployment easy for us.
- mulligan 13y agoWe built a multitail functionality back in the day, but we built it on top of a general purpose shell script to do things across multiple machines that we called multido: https://github.com/mochi/miscscripts/blob/master/cmultido https://github.com/mochi/miscscripts/blob/master/cmultido
- alazar 13y agoI was looking at multitail yesterday. The problem that I'm trying to solve is I follow multiple files using 'find /var/log -type f -mtime -1 | xargs tail -F' while I'm troubleshooting something, and then need to re-assemble them into one stanza per file rather than the sequential output from tail. I've been doing this manually in a text editor; does anyone have a better solution?
- taylodl 13y agoemacs auto-revert-tail-mode You can tail as many files as you want.
- santiagolizardo 13y agoIs not for the terminal, but it is a multiplatform multitail with highlighter that you might find handy if are running a graphical UI: http://sourceforge.net/projects/beobachter http://sourceforge.net/projects/beobachter Disclaimer: I'm the developer behind the project.