If you need to work with multiple dynamic logs at once, tail might not be enough to follow all of them. Enter Multitail – open multiple logs in split windows or search in all windows at once or get notifications on log changes. Multitail is customizable to the maximum extent possible.
Features
- Highly customizable log views: multiple windows, horizontal or vertical split, search in all wondows at one, suppress or filter certain lines and so on…
- Run external tools when a regular expression matches
- Scrollback, set number of lines to display, suppress blank lines
- Set update frequency
- Colour schemes
- Act as a visual pipe of syslog server
- Monitor stdin
- Set marks
- Wrap, truncate, show only left or right for long lines
- On new content beep, show a flashing screen, a popup or do nothing
- Set configurations from the cmdline
Installation
To install multitail on Ubuntu, run:
$ sudo apt-get install multitail
Usage
Multitail has a large number of options. To view all of them, run:
$ multitail -h
Webpage: Multitail
